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The glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper mediates statin-induced muscle damage.
Hoppstädter, Jessica Valbuena Perez, Jenny Vanessa Linnenberger, Rebecca Dahlem, Charlotte Legroux, Thierry M Hecksteden, Anne Tse, William K F Flamini, Sara Andreas, Anastasia Herrmann, Jennifer
Hoppstädter, Jessica
Valbuena Perez, Jenny Vanessa
Linnenberger, Rebecca
Dahlem, Charlotte
Legroux, Thierry M
Hecksteden, Anne
Tse, William K F
Flamini, Sara
Andreas, Anastasia
Herrmann, Jennifer
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2020-02-06
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Statins, the most prescribed class of drugs for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia, can cause muscle-related adverse effects. It has been shown that the glucocorticoid-induced leucine zipper (GILZ) plays a key role in the anti-myogenic action of dexamethasone. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the role of GILZ in statin-induced myopathy. Statins induced GILZ expression in C2C12 cells, primary murine myoblasts/myotubes, primary human myoblasts, and in vivo in zebrafish embryos and human quadriceps femoris muscle. Gilz induction was mediated by FOXO3 activation and binding to the Gilz promoter, and could be reversed by the addition of geranylgeranyl, but not farnesyl, pyrophosphate. Atorvastatin decreased Akt phosphorylation and increased cleaved caspase-3 levels in myoblasts. This effect was reversed in myoblasts from GILZ knockout mice. Similarly, myofibers isolated from knockout animals were more resistant toward statin-induced cell death than their wild-type counterparts. Statins also impaired myoblast differentiation, and this effect was accompanied by GILZ induction. The in vivo relevance of our findings was supported by the observation that gilz overexpression in zebrafish embryos led to impaired embryonic muscle development. Taken together, our data point toward GILZ as an essential mediator of the molecular mechanisms leading to statin-induced muscle damage.
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FASEB J. 2020 Feb 6. doi: 10.1096/fj.201902557RRR.
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