Role of glucocorticoids in the molecular regulation of muscle wasting
- 1 September 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 35 (Suppl), S602-S608
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ccm.0000279194.11328.77
Abstract
To review glucocorticoid-regulated molecular mechanisms of muscle wasting. Review of recent literature describing the role of glucocorticoids in the regulation of proteolytic mechanisms, transcription factors, and nuclear cofactors in skeletal muscle during various catabolic conditions. Catabolic doses of glucocorticoids induce muscle atrophy both in vivo and in vitro by stimulating protein breakdown and inhibiting protein synthesis. Signaling pathways that regulate muscle protein synthesis at the translational level are inhibited by glucocorticoids. Glucocorticoids increase the expression and activity of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, a major proteolytic mechanism of muscle atrophy. The expression and activity of muscle wasting-related transcription factors, including C/EBPbeta and delta and Forkhead box O 1, 3, and 4, as well as the nuclear cofactor p300, are up-regulated by glucocorticoid excess. Muscle wasting in various catabolic conditions is, at least in part, regulated by glucocorticoids. The role of glucocorticoids in muscle wasting is complex and reflects regulation at the molecular level of multiple mechanisms influencing both synthesis and degradation of muscle proteins.Keywords
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