Stefano Schiaffino - Selected publications#

Schiaffino S, Margreth A (1969). Coordinated development of the sarcoplasmic reticulum and T system during postnatal development of rat skeletal muscle. J Cell Biol. 41: 855-875.

Schiaffino S, Hanzlikova V, Pierobon Bormioli S (1970). Relations between structure and function in rat skeletal muscle fibers. J Cell Biol. 47: 107-115.

Sartore S, Pierobon Bormioli S & Schiaffino S (1978). Immunohistochemical evidence for myosin polymorphism in the chicken heart. Nature (London) 274: 82-83.

Pierobon Bormioli S, Sartore S, Vitadello M, Schiaffino S (1980). "Slow" myosins in vertebrate skeletal muscle. An immunofluorescence study. J Cell Biol. 85: 672-681.

Sartore S, Gorza L, Pierobon Bormioli S, Dalla Libera L, Schiaffino S (1981). Myosin types and fiber types in cardiac muscle. 1. Ventricular myocardium. J. Cell Biol. 88: 226-233.

Sartore S, Gorza L & Schiaffino S (1982). Fetal myosin heavy chains in regenerating muscle. Nature (London) 298: 294-296.

Saggin L, Ausoni S, Gorza L, Sartore S, Schiaffino S (1988) Troponin T switching in the developing rat heart. J Biol Chem 263: 18488-18492.

Schiaffino S, Samuel JL, Sassoon D, Lompré AM, Garner l, Marotte F, Buckingham M, Rappaport L, Schwartz K. (1989) Non-synchronous accumulation of alpha-skeletal actin and beta-myosin heavy chain mRNAs during early stages of pressure overload-induced cardiac hypertrophy demonstrated by in situ hybridization. Circ Res 64: 937-948.

Ausoni S, Gorza L, Schiaffino S, Gundersen K, Lomo T (1990) Expression of myosin heavy chain isoforms in stimulated fast and slow rat muscles. J Neurosci. 10: 153-160.

De Nardi C, Ausoni S, Moretti P, Gorza L, Velleca M, Buckingham M, Schiafiino S. (1993) Type 2X myosin heavy chain is coded by a muscle fiber type-specific and developmentally regulated gene. J Cell Biol. 123: 823-835.

Vitadello M, Schiaffino MV, Picard A, Scarpa M, Schiaffino S. (1994) Gene transfer in regenerating muscle. Hum Gene Ther. 5, 11-18.

Smerdu V, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Campione M, Leinwand L, Schiaffino S. (1994) Type 2X myosin heavy chain transcripts are expressed in type 2B fibers of human skeletal muscle. Am J Physiol. 267, 1723-1728.

Schiaffino S, Reggiani C. (1996) Molecular diversity of myofibrillar proteins: gene regulation and functional significance. Physiol Rev. 76: 371-423.

Murgia M, Serrano AL, Calabria E, Pallafacchina G, Lomo T, Schiaffino S. (2000) Ras is involved in nerve-activity-dependent regulation of muscle genes. Nature Cell Biol. 2:142- 147.

Serrano AL, Murgia M, Pallafacchina G, Calabria E, Coniglio P, Lomo T, Schiaffino S. (2001) Calcineurin controls nerve activity-dependent specification of slow skeletal muscle fibers but not muscle growth. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 98:l3108-13.

Pallafacchina G , Calabria E, Serrano AL, Kalhovde JM, Schiaffino S. (2002) A protein kinase B-dependent and rapamycin-sensitive pathway controls skeletal muscle growth but not fiber type specification. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 99:9213-18.

McCullagh K, Calabria E, Pallafacchina G, Ciciliot S, Serrano AL, Argentini C, Kalhovde JM, Lomo T, Schiaffino S. (2004) NFAT is a nerve activity sensor and controls activity-dependent myosin switching. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. l01:10590—95.

Mammucari C, Milan G, Romanello V, Masiero E, Rudolph R, Del Piccolo P, Burden SJ, Di Lisi R, Sandri C, Zhao J, Goldberg AL, Schiaffino S, Sandri M (2007) FoxO3 controls autophagy in skeletal muscle in vivo. Cell Metab. 6:45 8-471.

Schiaffino S & Partridge T, eds. (2008) Skeletal muscle repair and regeneration. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. XIV-380.

Blaauw B, Mammucari C, Toniolo L, Agatea L, Abraham R, Sandri M, Reggiani C, Schiaffino S (2008) Akt activation prevents the force drop induced by eccentric contractions in dystrophin-deficient skeletal muscle. Hum Mol Genet. 17:3686-96.

Schiaffino S, Reggiani C (2011) Fiber types in mammalian skeletal muscle. Physiol Rev, 91:1447-1531.

Schiaffino S, Dyar KA, Ciciliot S, Blaauw B, Sandri M (2013) Mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle growth and atrophy. FEBS J, 280:4294–4314.

Dyar KA, Ciciliot S, Wright LE, Biensø RS, Malagoli Tagliazucchi G, Patel VR, Forcato M, Peña Paz MI, Gudiksen A, Solagna F, Albiero M, Moretti I, Eckel-Mahan KL, Baldi P, Sassone-Corsi P, Rizzuto R, Bicciato S, Pilegaard H, Blaauw B, Schiaffino S (2014) Muscle insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism are controlled by the intrinsic muscle clock. Mol Metab, 3:29-41.

Murgia M, Nagaraj N, Deshmukh A, Zeiler M, Cancellara P, Moretti I, Reggiani C, Schiaffino S, Mann M (2015) Single muscle fiber proteomics reveals unexpected mitochondrial specialization. EMBO Rep, 16: 387-395.

Moretti I, Ciciliot S, Dyar KA, Abraham R, Murgia M, Agatea L, Akimoto T, Bicciato S, Forcato M, Pierre P, Uhlenhaut NH, Rigby PWJ, Carvajal JJ, Blaauw B, Calabria E, Schiaffino S (2016) MRF4 negatively regulates muscle growth by repressing MEF2 activity. Nature Commun, 7:12397.