Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 2015-07-01

Rotenone inhibits primary murine myotube formation via Raf-1 and ROCK2.

Sander Grefte, Jori A L Wagenaars, Renate Jansen, Peter H G M Willems, Werner J H Koopman

Index: Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1853 , 1606-14, (2015)

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Abstract

Rotenone (ROT) is a widely used inhibitor of complex I (CI), the first complex of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system. However, particularly at high concentrations ROT was also described to display off-target effects. Here we studied how ROT affected in vitro primary murine myotube formation. We demonstrate that myotube formation is specifically inhibited by ROT (10-100nM), but not by piericidin A (PA; 100nM), another CI inhibitor. At 100nM, both ROT and PA fully blocked myoblast oxygen consumption. Knock-down of Rho-associated, coiled-coil containing protein kinase 2 (ROCK2) and, to a lesser extent ROCK1, prevented the ROT-induced inhibition of myotube formation. Moreover, the latter was reversed by inhibiting Raf-1 activity. In contrast, ROT-induced inhibition of myotube formation was not prevented by knock-down of RhoA. Taken together, our results support a model in which ROT reduces primary myotube formation independent of its inhibitory effect on CI-driven mitochondrial ATP production, but via a mechanism primarily involving the Raf-1/ROCK2 pathway. Copyright © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.


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