PMID- 35025965 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220218 LR - 20220218 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 17 IP - 1 DP - 2022 TI - Thermal stress affects proliferation and differentiation of turkey satellite cells through the mTOR/S6K pathway in a growth-dependent manner. PG - e0262576 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0262576 [doi] LID - e0262576 AB - Satellite cells (SCs) are stem cells responsible for post-hatch muscle growth through hypertrophy and in birds are sensitive to thermal stress during the first week after hatch. The mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway, which is highly responsive to thermal stress in differentiating turkey pectoralis major (p. major) muscle SCs, regulates protein synthesis and the activities of SCs through a downstream effector, S6 kinase (S6K). The objectives of this study were: 1) to determine the effect of heat (43 degrees C) and cold (33 degrees C) stress on activity of the mTOR/S6K pathway in SCs isolated from the p. major muscle of one-week-old faster-growing modern commercial (NC) turkeys compared to those from slower-growing Randombred Control Line 2 (RBC2) turkeys, and 2) to assess the effect of mTOR knockdown on the proliferation, differentiation, and expression of myogenic regulatory factors of the SCs. Heat stress increased phosphorylation of both mTOR and S6K in both turkey lines, with greater increases observed in the RBC2 line. With cold stress, greater reductions in mTOR and S6K phosphorylation were observed in the NC line. Early knockdown of mTOR decreased proliferation, differentiation, and expression of myoblast determination protein 1 and myogenin in both lines independent of temperature, with the RBC2 line showing greater reductions in proliferation and differentiation than the NC line at 38 degrees and 43 degrees C. Proliferating SCs are more dependent on mTOR/S6K-mediated regulation than differentiating SCs. Thus, thermal stress can affect breast muscle hypertrophic potential by changing satellite cell proliferation and differentiation, in part, through the mTOR/S6K pathway in a growth-dependent manner. These changes may result in irreversible effects on the development and growth of the turkey p. major muscle. FAU - Xu, Jiahui AU - Xu J AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2780-9267 AD - Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, United States of America. FAU - Strasburg, Gale M AU - Strasburg GM AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3897-4340 AD - Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America. FAU - Reed, Kent M AU - Reed KM AD - Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, United States of America. FAU - Velleman, Sandra G AU - Velleman SG AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8291-847X AD - Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, United States of America. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220113 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins) RN - 0 (MyoD Protein) RN - 0 (MyoD1 myogenic differentiation protein) RN - 0 (Myogenin) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Differentiation/physiology MH - Cell Proliferation/physiology MH - Cold-Shock Response/physiology MH - Heat-Shock Response/*physiology MH - Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/metabolism MH - MyoD Protein/metabolism MH - Myogenin/metabolism MH - Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism MH - Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinases/metabolism MH - Satellite Cells, Skeletal Muscle/*metabolism MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism MH - Temperature MH - Turkeys/*growth & development/metabolism PMC - PMC8758067 COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2022/01/14 06:00 MHDA- 2022/02/19 06:00 PMCR- 2022/01/13 CRDT- 2022/01/13 17:30 PHST- 2021/08/10 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/12/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/01/13 17:30 [entrez] PHST- 2022/01/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/02/19 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/13 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-21-25935 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0262576 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2022 Jan 13;17(1):e0262576. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262576. eCollection 2022.