Notch signaling inhibits muscle cell differentiation through a CBF1-independent pathway

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Abstract

Notch controls cell fate by inhibiting cellular differentiation, presumably through activation of the transcriptional regulator human C promoter Binding Factor (CBF1), which transactivates the hairy and Enhancer of split (HES-1) gene. However, we describe constitutively active forms of Notch1, which inhibit muscle cell differentiation but do not interact with CBF1 or upregulate endogenous HES-1 expression. In addition, Jagged-Notch interactions that prevent the expression of muscle cell specific genes do not involve the upregulation of endogenous HES-1. In fact, exogenous expression of HES-1 in C2C12 myoblasts does not block myogenesis. Our data demonstrate the existence of a CBF1-independent pathway by which Notch inhibits differentiation. We therefore propose that Notch signaling activates at least two different pathways: one which involves CBF1 as an intermediate and one which does not.

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