Fig. 10. Inhibition of myotube formation by EGFP-tagged murine archvillin sequences.
EGFP-tagged proteins encoding the designated murine archvillin amino acids
were transfected into C2C12 myoblasts, and the percentages of expressing cells
that were multinucleate were scored after 6 days in differentiation medium.
Column heights and error bars represent the means and standard deviations,
respectively, of four separate experiments. Statistical significance was
assessed with the Tukey-Kramer multiple comparisons test and by Student's
t-tests. Both analyses indicated that C2C12 cells transfected with
EGFP-tagged murine archvillin sequences 1-1353, 1-739 and 257-739 were
significantly less likely to be present in myotubes than were cells similarly
transfected with either the EGFP tag alone or with EGFP-tagged full-length
murine archvillin (*P<0.001).