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The ontogeny of delta-like protein 1 messenger ribonucleic acid expression during muscle development and regeneration: Comparison of broiler and Leghorn chickens

J. Shin^*,, S. G. Velleman^*, J. D. Latshaw^*, M. P. Wick^*, Y. Suh^* and K. Lee^*,,1

^* Department of Animal Sciences, and The Ohio State University Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Nutrition (OSUN), The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210

¹ Corresponding author: lee.2626{at}osu.edu

Delta-like protein 1 (DLK1) has been implicated in the muscle hypertrophy observed in DLK1 transgenic mice, callipyge sheep, and mouse paternal uniparental disomy 12 and human paternal uniparental disomy 14 syndromes. The current study was aimed to determine chicken DLK1 (gDLK1) mRNA expression during primary muscle cell differentiation and during muscle regeneration after cold injury and to compare gDLK1 mRNA expression during skeletal muscle development in layers and broilers. In chicken primary muscle cell culture, gDLK1 mRNA expression was significantly increased from 12 to 48 h (P 0.05) when the nascent myotubes were actively formed at d 2 to 3. Myogenin, a late myogenic marker gene, mRNA expression peaked at 36 to 48 h. Myogenic differentiation 1 (MyoD) and paired box gene 7 (Pax7), early myogenic marker genes, mRNA expression gradually decreased during myogenic differentiation. During muscle regeneration, the expression of MyoD and Pax7 peaked at d 2 (P 0.05), and myogenin mRNA expression peaked at d 4 (P 0.05). The induction of gDLK1 gene appeared between d 7 to 10 postinjury (P 0.05) when myotubes were actively formed as also demonstrated in histological sections. The expression of gDLK1 was slowly downregulated to the control levels at d 14 when the damaged muscle appeared nearly healed. These data suggest that gDLK1 may be involved in the late myogenic stages of primary muscle cell differentiation and muscle regeneration. The gDLK1 mRNA in the muscle tissues was very abundant at embryonic ages but decreased after hatching in both broiler and layer chickens. Compared with layers, broiler muscle at embryonic d 13 had a 3-fold greater expression of DLK1 (P 0.01). In addition, the gDLK1 mRNA expression at d 1, 11, and 33 post-hatch was significantly higher in broilers than layers (P 0.05). Therefore, the relatively greater expression of the gDLK1 gene in muscles of broilers compared with layers suggests that gDLK1 may serve as a new selection marker for high muscle growth in chickens. These findings may provide new insight into chicken muscle development and regeneration.

Key Words: chicken delta-like protein 1 • muscle • differentiation • growth • development

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