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Iwata Y, Matsumura T. Blockade of TRPV2 is a Novel Therapy for Cardiomyopathy in Muscular Dystrophy. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:ijms20163844. [PMID: 31394715 PMCID: PMC6720432 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20163844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Revised: 07/16/2019] [Accepted: 08/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Muscular dystrophy and dilated cardiomyopathy are intractable diseases and their treatment options are very limited. Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V, member 2 (TRPV2), is a stretch-sensitive Ca2+-permeable channel that causes sustained intracellular Ca2+ increase in muscular cells, which is a pathophysiological feature of degenerative muscular disease. Recent reports have clarified that TRPV2 is concentrated and activated in the sarcolemma of cardiomyocytes/myocytes during cardiomyopathy/heart failure and muscular dystrophy. Furthermore, these reports showed that inactivation of TRPV2 ameliorates muscle dysgenesis to improve cardiac function and survival prognosis. Although TRPV2 is a potential therapeutic target for cardiomyopathy, there were no TRPV2 inhibitors available until recently. In this review, we introduce our recent findings and discuss the current progress in the development of TRPV2 inhibitors and their therapeutic applications for cardiomyopathy associated with muscular dystrophy.
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- Yuko Iwata
- Department of Clinical Research and Development, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, 6-1 Kishibe Shinmachi, Suita, Osaka 564-8565, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, National Hospital Organization Osaka Toneyama Medical Center, 5-1-1 Toneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8552, Japan.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW To construct a framework to understand the different molecular interventions for muscular dystrophy. RECENT FINDINGS The recent approval of antisense oligonucleotides treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy and spinal muscular atrophy and current clinical trials using recombinant adeno-associated virus for the treatment of those diseases suggests that we are at a tipping point where we are able to treat and potentially cure muscular dystrophies. Understanding the basic molecular pathogenesis of muscular dystrophies and the molecular biology of the treatment allows for critical evaluation of the proposed therapies.
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- Ava Y Lin
- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Box 356465, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6465, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Box 356465, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA, 98195-6465, USA.
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Turk R, Hsiao JJ, Smits MM, Ng BH, Pospisil TC, Jones KS, Campbell KP, Wright ME. Molecular Signatures of Membrane Protein Complexes Underlying Muscular Dystrophy. Mol Cell Proteomics 2016; 15:2169-85. [PMID: 27099343 PMCID: PMC5083101 DOI: 10.1074/mcp.m116.059188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Mutations in genes encoding components of the sarcolemmal dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC) are responsible for a large number of muscular dystrophies. As such, molecular dissection of the DGC is expected to both reveal pathological mechanisms, and provides a biological framework for validating new DGC components. Establishment of the molecular composition of plasma-membrane protein complexes has been hampered by a lack of suitable biochemical approaches. Here we present an analytical workflow based upon the principles of protein correlation profiling that has enabled us to model the molecular composition of the DGC in mouse skeletal muscle. We also report our analysis of protein complexes in mice harboring mutations in DGC components. Bioinformatic analyses suggested that cell-adhesion pathways were under the transcriptional control of NFκB in DGC mutant mice, which is a finding that is supported by previous studies that showed NFκB-regulated pathways underlie the pathophysiology of DGC-related muscular dystrophies. Moreover, the bioinformatic analyses suggested that inflammatory and compensatory mechanisms were activated in skeletal muscle of DGC mutant mice. Additionally, this proteomic study provides a molecular framework to refine our understanding of the DGC, identification of protein biomarkers of neuromuscular disease, and pharmacological interrogation of the DGC in adult skeletal muscle https://www.mda.org/disease/congenital-muscular-dystrophy/research.
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- Rolf Turk
- From the ‡Howard Hughes Medical Institute, §Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center, ¶Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, ‖Department of Neurology, **Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- ¶Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
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- From the ‡Howard Hughes Medical Institute, §Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center, ¶Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, ‖Department of Neurology, **Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- From the ‡Howard Hughes Medical Institute, §Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center, ¶Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, ‖Department of Neurology, **Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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- From the ‡Howard Hughes Medical Institute, §Senator Paul D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Research Center, ¶Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, ‖Department of Neurology, **Department of Internal Medicine, Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
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Murphy S, Ohlendieck K. The biochemical and mass spectrometric profiling of the dystrophin complexome from skeletal muscle. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2015; 14:20-7. [PMID: 26793286 PMCID: PMC4688399 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2015.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2015] [Revised: 11/05/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The development of advanced mass spectrometric methodology has decisively enhanced the analytical capabilities for studies into the composition and dynamics of multi-subunit protein complexes and their associated components. Large-scale complexome profiling is an approach that combines the systematic isolation and enrichment of protein assemblies with sophisticated mass spectrometry-based identification methods. In skeletal muscles, the membrane cytoskeletal protein dystrophin of 427 kDa forms tight interactions with a variety of sarcolemmal, cytosolic and extracellular proteins, which in turn associate with key components of the extracellular matrix and the intracellular cytoskeleton. A major function of this enormous assembly of proteins, including dystroglycans, sarcoglycans, syntrophins, dystrobrevins, sarcospan, laminin and cortical actin, is postulated to stabilize muscle fibres during the physical tensions of continuous excitation-contraction-relaxation cycles. This article reviews the evidence from recent proteomic studies that have focused on the characterization of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex and its central role in the establishment of the cytoskeleton-sarcolemma-matrisome axis. Proteomic findings suggest a close linkage of the core dystrophin complex with a variety of protein species, including tubulin, vimentin, desmin, annexin, proteoglycans and collagens. Since the almost complete absence of dystrophin is the underlying cause for X-linked muscular dystrophy, a more detailed understanding of the composition, structure and plasticity of the dystrophin complexome may have considerable biomedical implications.
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- Sandra Murphy
- Department of Biology, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
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- Department of Biology, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
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Marshall JL, Crosbie-Watson RH. Sarcospan: a small protein with large potential for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Skelet Muscle 2013; 3:1. [PMID: 23282144 PMCID: PMC3599653 DOI: 10.1186/2044-5040-3-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2012] [Accepted: 11/27/2012] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Purification of the proteins associated with dystrophin, the gene product responsible for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, led to the discovery of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex. Sarcospan, a 25-kDa transmembrane protein, was the last component to be identified and its function in skeletal muscle has been elusive. This review will focus on progress over the last decade revealing that sarcospan is an important regulator of muscle cell adhesion, strength, and regeneration. Investigations using several transgenic mouse models demonstrate that overexpression of sarcospan in the mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy ameliorates pathology and restores muscle cell binding to laminin. Sarcospan improves cell surface expression of the dystrophin- and utrophin-glycoprotein complexes as well as α7β1 integrin, which are the three major laminin-binding complexes in muscle. Utrophin and α7β1 integrin compensate for the loss of dystrophin and the finding that sarcospan increases their abundance at the extra-synaptic sarcolemma supports the use of sarcospan as a therapeutic target. Newly discovered phenotypes in sarcospan-deficient mice, including a reduction in specific force output and increased drop in force in the diaphragm muscle, result from decreased utrophin and dystrophin expression and further reveal sarcospan’s role in determining abundance of these complexes. Dystrophin protein levels and the specific force output of the diaphragm muscle are further reduced upon genetic removal of α7 integrin (Itga7) in SSPN-deficient mice, demonstrating that interactions between integrin and sarcospan are critical for maintenance of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex and force production of the diaphragm muscle. Sarcospan is a major regulator of Akt signaling pathways and sarcospan-deficiency significantly impairs muscle regeneration, a process that is dependent on Akt activation. Intriguingly, sarcospan regulates glycosylation of a specific subpopulation of α-dystroglycan, the laminin-binding receptor associated with dystrophin and utrophin, localized to the neuromuscular junction. Understanding the basic mechanisms responsible for assembly and trafficking of the dystrophin- and utrophin-glycoprotein complexes to the cell surface is lacking and recent studies suggest that sarcospan plays a role in these essential processes.
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- Jamie L Marshall
- Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, University of California Los Angeles, 610 Charles E, Young Drive East, Terasaki Life Sciences Building, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
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Ozawa E. Our trails and trials in the subsarcolemmal cytoskeleton network and muscular dystrophy researches in the dystrophin era. PROCEEDINGS OF THE JAPAN ACADEMY. SERIES B, PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 2010; 86:798-821. [PMID: 20948175 PMCID: PMC3037518 DOI: 10.2183/pjab.86.798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2010] [Accepted: 08/09/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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In 1987, about 150 years after the discovery of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), its responsible gene, the dystrophin gene, was cloned by Kunkel. This was a new substance. During these 20 odd years after the cloning, our understanding on dystrophin as a component of the subsarcolemmal cytoskeleton networks and on the pathomechanisms of and experimental therapeutics for DMD has been greatly enhanced. During this paradigm change, I was fortunately able to work as an active researcher on its frontiers for 12 years. After we discovered that dystrophin is located on the cell membrane in 1988, we studied the architecture of dystrophin and dystrophin-associated proteins (DAPs) complex in order to investigate the function of dystrophin and pathomechanism of DMD. During the conduct of these studies, we came to consider that the dystrophin-DAP complex serves to transmembranously connect the subsarcolemmal cytoskeleton networks and basal lamina to protect the lipid bilayer. It then became our working hypothesis that injury of the lipid bilayer upon muscle contraction is the cause of DMD. During this process, we predicted that subunits of the sarcoglycan (SG) complex are responsible for respective types of DMD-like muscular dystrophy with autosomal recessive inheritance. Our prediction was confirmed to be true by many researchers including ourselves. In this review, I will try to explain what we observed and how we considered concerning the architecture and function of the dystrophin-DAP complex, and the pathomechanisms of DMD and related muscular dystrophies.
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- Eijiro Ozawa
- National Center of Neuroscience, NCNP, Kodairashi, Tokyo 187-8502, Japan.
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Nishiyama A, Ampong BN, Ohshima S, Shin JH, Nakai H, Imamura M, Miyagoe-Suzuki Y, Okada T, Takeda S. Recombinant adeno-associated virus type 8-mediated extensive therapeutic gene delivery into skeletal muscle of alpha-sarcoglycan-deficient mice. Hum Gene Ther 2008; 19:719-30. [PMID: 18578595 DOI: 10.1089/hum.2007.184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D (LGMD 2D) is caused by mutations in the alpha-sarcoglycan gene (alpha-SG). The absence of alpha-SG results in the loss of the SG complex at the sarcolemma and compromises the integrity of the sarcolemma. To establish a method for recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV)-mediated alpha-SG gene therapy into alpha-SG-deficient muscle, we constructed rAAV serotypes 2 and 8 expressing the human alpha-SG gene under the control of the ubiquitous cytomegalovirus promoter (rAAV2-alpha-SG and rAAV8-alpha-SG). We compared the transduction profiles and evaluated the therapeutic effects of a single intramuscular injection of rAAVs into alpha-SG-deficient (Sgca(-/-)) mice. Four weeks after rAAV2 injection into the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle of 10-day-old Sgca(-/-) mice, transduction of the alpha-SG gene was localized to a limited area of the TA muscle. On the other hand, rAAV8-mediated alpha-SG expression was widely distributed in the hind limb muscle, and persisted for 7 months without inducing cytotoxic and immunological reactions, with a reversal of the muscle pathology and improvement in the contractile force of the Sgca(-/-) muscle. This extensive rAAV8-mediated alpha-SG transduction in LGMD 2D model animals paves the way for future clinical application.
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- Akiyo Nishiyama
- Department of Molecular Therapy, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Tokyo 187-8502, Japan
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Kobuke K, Piccolo F, Garringer KW, Moore SA, Sweezer E, Yang B, Campbell KP. A common disease-associated missense mutation in alpha-sarcoglycan fails to cause muscular dystrophy in mice. Hum Mol Genet 2008; 17:1201-13. [PMID: 18252746 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddn009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2D (LGMD2D) is caused by autosomal recessive mutations in the alpha-sarcoglycan gene. An R77C substitution is the most prevalent cause of the disease, leading to disruption of the sarcoglycan-sarcospan complex. To model this common mutation, we generated knock-in mice with an H77C substitution in alpha-sarcoglycan. The floxed neomycin (Neo)-cassette retained at the targeted H77C alpha-sarcoglycan locus caused a loss of alpha-sarcoglycan expression, resulting in muscular dystrophy in homozygotes, whereas Cre-mediated deletion of the floxed Neo-cassette led to recovered H77C alpha-sarcoglycan expression. Contrary to expectations, mice homozygous for the H77C-encoding allele expressed both this mutant alpha-sarcoglycan and the other components of the sarcoglycan-sarcospan complex in striated muscle, and did not develop muscular dystrophy. Accordingly, conditional rescued expression of the H77C protein in striated muscle of the alpha-sarcoglycan-deficient mice prevented the disease. Adding to the case that the behavior of mutant alpha-sarcoglycan is different between humans and mice, mutant human R77C alpha-sarcoglycan restored the expression of the sarcoglycan-sarcospan complex when introduced by adenoviral vector into the skeletal muscle of previously created alpha-sarcoglycan null mice. These findings indicate that the alpha-sarcoglycan with the most frequent missense mutation in LGMD2D is correctly processed, is transported to the sarcolemma, and is fully functional in mouse muscle. Our study presents an unexpected difference in the behavior of a missense-mutated protein in mice versus human patients, and emphasizes the need to understand species-specific protein quality control systems.
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- Kazuhiro Kobuke
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Iwata Y, Katanosaka Y, Hisamitsu T, Wakabayashi S. Enhanced Na+/H+ exchange activity contributes to the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy via involvement of P2 receptors. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2007; 171:1576-87. [PMID: 17823278 PMCID: PMC2043518 DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.070452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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A subset of muscular dystrophy is caused by genetic defects in dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex. Using two animal models (BIO14.6 hamsters and mdx mice), we found that Na(+)/H(+) exchanger (NHE) inhibitors prevented muscle degeneration. NHE activity was constitutively enhanced in BIO myotubes, as evidenced by the elevated intracellular pH and enhanced (22)Na(+) influx, with activation of putative upstream kinases ERK42/44. NHE inhibitor significantly reduced the increases in baseline intracellular Ca(2+) as well as Na(+) concentration and stretch-induced damage, suggesting that Na(+)(i)-dependent Ca(2+)overload via the Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchanger may cause muscle damage. Furthermore, ATP was found to be released continuously from BIO myotubes in a manner further stimulated by stretching and that the P2 receptor antagonists reduce the enhanced NHE activity and dystrophic muscle damage. These observations suggest that autocrine ATP release may be primarily involved in genesis of abnormal ionic homeostasis in dystrophic muscles and that Na(+)-dependent ion exchangers play a critical pathological role in muscular dystrophy.
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- Yuko Iwata
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
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Chen J, Skinner MA, Shi W, Yu QC, Wildeman AG, Chan YMM. The 16 kDa subunit of vacuolar H+-ATPase is a novel sarcoglycan-interacting protein. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2007; 1772:570-9. [PMID: 17382524 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2007.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2006] [Revised: 01/30/2007] [Accepted: 01/31/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The sarcoglycan complex in muscle consists of alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-sarcoglycan and is part of the larger dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC), which is essential for maintaining muscle membrane integrity. Mutations in any of the four sarcoglycans cause limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMD). In this report, we have identified a novel interaction between delta-sarcoglycan and the 16 kDa subunit c (16K) of vacuolar H(+)-ATPase. Co-expression studies in heterologous cell system revealed that 16K interacts specifically with delta-sarcoglycan and the highly related gamma-sarcoglycan through the transmembrane domains. In cultured C2C12 myotubes, 16K forms a complex with sarcoglycans at the plasma membrane. Loss of sarcoglycans in the sarcoglycan-deficient BIO14.6 hamster destabilizes the DGC and alters the localization of 16K at the sarcolemma. In addition, the steady state level of beta(1)-integrin is increased. Recent studies have shown that 16K also interacts directly with beta(1)-integrin and our data demonstrated that sarcoglycans, 16K and beta(1)-integrin were immunoprecipitated together in C2C12 myotubes. Since sarcoglycans have been proposed to participate in bi-directional signaling with integrins, our findings suggest that 16K might mediate the communication between sarcoglycans and integrins and play an important role in the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy.
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- Jiwei Chen
- Sigfried and Janet Weis Center for Research, The Geisinger Clinic, Danville, PA 17822, USA
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Lansman JB, Franco-Obregón A. MECHANOSENSITIVE ION CHANNELS IN SKELETAL MUSCLE: A LINK IN THE MEMBRANE PATHOLOGY OF MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 2006; 33:649-56. [PMID: 16789935 DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2006.04393.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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1. Mechanosensitive (MS) channels are expressed abundantly in skeletal muscle at all stages of development. In recordings from membrane patches, MS channels are constitutively active at the resting potential. The channels are selective for cations and have a large single-channel conductance (approximately 25 pS in physiological saline) and a high Ca2+ permeability (relative permeability of Ca2+ to K+ (PCa/PK) = 7). 2. Mechanosensitive channel activity recorded from the surface of myotubes from dystrophic mdx mice was substantially greater than the activity recorded from wild-type myotubes. Increased channel activity in the mutant results from the induction in a subpopulation of channels of a novel MS gating mode characterized by markedly prolonged channel openings and inactivation in response to membrane stretch. 3. Membrane stretch or a strong depolarization causes an irreversible switch to the stretch-inactivated gating mode in mdx myotubes. A stretch-induced shift in MS channel gating mode may contribute to stretch-induced elevations in [Ca2+]i during the early stages of disease pathogenesis. 4. Abnormalities of MS channel behaviour are also detected in recordings from patches on flexor digitorum brevis fibres acutely isolated from mdx mice. Mechanosensitive channel opening probability is higher in mdx fibres at all developmental stages. In addition, channel numbers are persistently elevated during postnatal development, failing to undergo a normal process of downregulation during the first 3 postnatal weeks. 5. Two distinct mechanisms may contribute to elevations of [Ca2+]i in dystrophin-deficient skeletal muscle: (i) a membrane stress-dependent switch of MS channels into to a prolonged opening mode; and (ii) a loss of developmental downregulation leading to persistent MS channel expression during postnatal muscle development.
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- Jeffry B Lansman
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California 94143-0450, USA.
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Shiga K, Yoshioka H, Matsumiya T, Kimura I, Takeda S, Imamura M. ζ-Sarcoglycan is a functional homologue of γ-sarcoglycan in the formation of the sarcoglycan complex. Exp Cell Res 2006; 312:2083-92. [PMID: 16635485 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2006.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2005] [Revised: 03/06/2006] [Accepted: 03/08/2006] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The sarcoglycans (SGs), transmembrane components of the dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex, are stable and functional only when they assemble into a tetrameric complex in muscle cells. A defect in any one of the four SG members disrupts the entire SG complex (SGC) and causes limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. zeta-SG has been recently found as a transmembrane protein homologous to gamma-SG and delta-SG. To characterize zeta-SG in complex formation, we co-transfected expression vectors encoding all six SGs (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-, epsilon- and zeta-SG) and dystroglycan into Chinese hamster ovary cells. Immunoprecipitation analysis showed that zeta-SG or gamma-SG formed a SGC with beta-SG and delta-SG plus alpha-SG or epsilon-SG, revealing that zeta-SG can form two types of SGCs (alpha-beta-zeta-delta or epsilon-beta-zeta-delta). This result indicates the functional resemblance of zeta-SG to gamma-SG rather than delta-SG, although phylogenetic analysis suggests that zeta-SG is evolutionally closer to delta-SG than to gamma-SG. Reverse transcription (RT)-PCR showed that the expression pattern of the transcript was almost the reciprocal of that of gamma-SG in various mouse tissues and that the zeta-SG transcript was especially abundant in the brain, suggesting that zeta-SG might play a particular role in the central nervous system.
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- Kazuo Shiga
- Department of Molecular Therapy, National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, 4-1-1 Ogawahigashi-cho, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8502, Japan
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Kobayashi Y, Katanosaka Y, Iwata Y, Matsuoka M, Shigekawa M, Wakabayashi S. Identification and characterization of GSRP-56, a novel Golgi-localized spectrin repeat-containing protein. Exp Cell Res 2006; 312:3152-64. [PMID: 16875688 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2006.06.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2006] [Revised: 06/04/2006] [Accepted: 06/13/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Spectrin repeat (SR)-containing proteins are important for regulation of integrity of biomembranes, not only the plasma membrane but also those of intracellular organelles, such as the Golgi, nucleus, endo/lysosomes, and synaptic vesicles. We identified a novel SR-containing protein, named GSRP-56 (Golgi-localized SR-containing protein-56), by a yeast two-hybrid method, using a member of the transient receptor potential channel family, TRPV2, as bait. GSRP-56 is an isoform derived from a giant SR-containing protein, Syne-1 (synaptic nuclear envelope protein-1, also referred to as Nesprin-1 or Enaptin), predicted to be produced by alternative splicing. Immunological analysis demonstrated that this isoform is a 56-kDa protein, which is localized predominantly in the Golgi apparatus in cardiomyocytes and C2C12 myoblasts/myotubes, and we found that two SR domains were required both for Golgi targeting and for interaction with TRPV2. Interestingly, overexpression of GSRP-56 resulted in a morphological change in the Golgi structure, characterized by its enlargement of cis-Golgi marker antibody-staining area, which would result partly from fragmentation of Golgi membranes. Our findings indicate that GSRP-56 is a novel, particularly small Golgi-localized member of the spectrin family, which possibly play a role in maintenance of the Golgi structure.
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- Yuko Kobayashi
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan.
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Iwata Y, Katanosaka Y, Shijun Z, Kobayashi Y, Hanada H, Shigekawa M, Wakabayashi S. Protective effects of Ca2+ handling drugs against abnormal Ca2+ homeostasis and cell damage in myopathic skeletal muscle cells. Biochem Pharmacol 2005; 70:740-51. [PMID: 16009351 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2005.05.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2005] [Revised: 05/12/2005] [Accepted: 05/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Deficiency of delta-sarcoglycan (delta-SG), a component of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC), causes skeletal muscular dystrophy and cardiomyopathy in BIO14.6 hamsters. Here, we studied the involvement of abnormal Ca2+ homeostasis in muscle degeneration and the protective effect of drugs against Ca2+ handling proteins in vivo as well as in vitro. First, we characterized the properties of cultured myotubes from muscles of normal and BIO14.6 hamsters (30-60 days old). While there were no apparent differences in the levels of expression of various Ca2+ handling proteins (L-type Ca2+ channel, ryanodine receptor, SR-Ca2+ ATPase, and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger), muscle-specific proteins (contractile actin and acetylcholine receptor), or DGC member proteins except SGs, BIO14.6 myotubes showed a high degree of susceptibility to mechanical stressors, such as cyclic stretching and hypo-osmotic stress as compared to normal myotubes, as evidenced by marked increases in creatine phosphokinase (CK) release and bleb formation. BIO14.6 myotubes showed abnormal Ca2+ homeostasis characterized by elevated cytosolic Ca2+ concentration, frequent Ca2+ oscillation, and increased 45Ca2+ uptake. These abnormal Ca2+ events and CK release were significantly prevented by Ca2+ handling drugs, tranilast, diltiazem, and FK506. The calpain inhibitor E64 prevented CK release, but not 45Ca2+ uptake. Some of these drugs (tranilast, diltiazem, and FK506) also exerted a significant protective effect for muscle degeneration in BIO14.6 hamsters and mdx mice in vivo. These observations suggest that elevated Ca2+ entry through sarcolemmal Ca2+ channels predominantly contributes to muscle degeneration and that the drugs tested here may have novel therapeutic potential against muscular dystrophy.
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- Yuko Iwata
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Fujishiro-dai 5-7-1, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan.
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Kondoh H, Sawa Y, Fukushima N, Matsumiya G, Miyagawa S, Kitagawa-Sakakida S, Memon IA, Kawaguchi N, Matsuura N, Matsuda H. Reorganization of cytoskeletal proteins and prolonged life expectancy caused by hepatocyte growth factor in a hamster model of late-phase dilated cardiomyopathy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005; 130:295-302. [PMID: 16077390 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.11.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE It has been postulated recently that changes in cytoskeletal and sarcolemmal proteins initiate a final common pathway for contractile dysfunction in dilated cardiomyopathy. In ischemic cardiomyopathy, hepatocyte growth factor plays an important role in reorganizing the impaired cytoskeletal proteins in several cell types. We have tested the hypothesis that hepatocyte growth factor might improve life expectancy through modification of the molecular process that contributes to impairment in dilated cardiomyopathy. METHODS Adult male 27-week-old BIO TO-2 hamsters, which show moderate cardiac remodeling, were divided into treatment groups that received (1) hemagglutinating virus of Japan liposomes containing human hepatocyte growth factor cDNA (H group), (2) culture medium (C group), or (3) sham operation (S group). RESULTS After the operation, echocardiography demonstrated that the enlarged left ventricular end-systolic dimension and decreased fractional shortening were significantly attenuated in the H group compared with the C group. There was significantly less myocardial fibrosis in the H group compared with the C group. Immunohistochemical analysis showed alpha-dystroglycan and alpha- and beta-sarcoglycan expression in the basement membrane beneath the cardiomyocytes in the H group, whereas no expression of these proteins was seen in the C group. The 40-week survival was significantly better in the H group than in the C and S groups. CONCLUSION An improved survival associated with transient reorganization of the cytoskeletal proteins and reduction in myocardial fibrosis was achieved by hepatocyte growth factor treatment in an adult hamster model of dilated cardiomyopathy. The results suggest a therapeutic potential of hepatocyte growth factor in the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy.
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- Haruhiko Kondoh
- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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Most neuromuscular disorders display only non-specific myopathological features in routine histological preparations. However, a number of proteins, including sarcolemmal, sarcomeric, and nuclear proteins as well as enzymes with defects responsible for neuromuscular disorders, have been identified during the past two decades, allowing a more specific and firm diagnosis of muscle diseases. Identification of protein defects relies predominantly on immunohistochemical preparations and on Western blot analysis. While immunohistochemistry is very useful in identifying abnormal expression of primary protein abnormalities in recessive conditions, it is less helpful in detecting primary defects in dominantly inherited disorders. Abnormal immunohistochemical expression patterns can be confirmed by Western blot analysis which may also be informative in dominant disorders, although its role has yet to be established. Besides identification of specific protein defects, immunohistochemistry is also helpful in the differentiation of inflammatory myopathies by subtyping cellular infiltrates and demonstrating up-regulation of subtle immunological parameters such as cell adhesion molecules. The role of immunohistochemistry in denervating disorders, however, remains controversial in the absence of a reliable marker of muscle fibre denervation. Nevertheless, as well as the diagnostic value of immunocytochemical analysis it may also widen understanding of muscle fibre pathology as well as help in the development of therapeutic strategies.
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- D S Tews
- Edinger-Institute of the Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany.
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Iwata Y, Shigekawa M, Wakabayashi S. Cardiac syntrophin isoforms: Species-dependent expression, association with dystrophin complex and subcellular localization. Mol Cell Biochem 2005; 268:59-66. [PMID: 15724438 DOI: 10.1007/s11010-005-2998-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Syntrophin is known to be a component of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC), a membrane/cytoskeleton-anchoring structure that is essential for the maintenance of viability of sarcolemma. We purified DGC from hearts of human and several animal species, and compared their protein composition. While almost all components of DGC were present in various species, proteins with the apparent molecular mass of 50-65 kDa corresponding to syntrophin isoforms were very different among them. Three isoforms of syntrophin (alpha1, beta1, beta2) were expressed in hamster, rat and canine ventricles, whereas only alpha1-isoform was mainly expressed in human and rabbit ventricles. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that alpha1-and beta2-syntrophins were co-localized in sarcolemma and in T-tubules of canine ventricles. However, despite membrane localization of most syntrophins, subcellular fractionation revealed that part of syntrophins were recovered in the cytosolic fraction devoid of other components of DGC, raising the possibility that syntrophins may play multiple roles in various intracellular sites of cardiac muscle cells. Species-dependent expression and unique subcellular localization of syntrophins in cardiac muscle may contribute to the variable severity of muscle dysgenesis caused by the same primary defect in components of DGC of human and other animal species.
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- Yuko Iwata
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Fujishiro-dai, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
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Ozawa E, Mizuno Y, Hagiwara Y, Sasaoka T, Yoshida M. Molecular and cell biology of the sarcoglycan complex. Muscle Nerve 2005; 32:563-76. [PMID: 15937871 DOI: 10.1002/mus.20349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The original sarcoglycan (SG) complex has four subunits and comprises a subcomplex of the dystrophin-dystrophin-associated protein complex. Each SG gene has been shown to be responsible for limb-girdle muscular dystrophy, called sarcoglycanopathy (SGP). In this review, we detail the characteristics of the SG subunits, and the mechanism of the formation of the SG complex and various molecules associated with this complex. We discuss the molecular mechanisms of SGP based on studies mostly using SGP animal models. In addition, we describe other SG molecules, epsilon- and zeta-SGs, with special reference to their expression and roles in vascular smooth muscle, which are currently in dispute. We further consider the maternally imprinted nature of the epsilon-SG gene. Finally, we stress that the SG complex cannot work by itself and works in a larger complex system, called the transverse fixation system, which forms an array of molecules responsible for various muscular dystrophies.
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- Eijiro Ozawa
- National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Ogawahigashi-cho, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan.
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Nishiyama A, Endo T, Takeda S, Imamura M. Identification and characterization of epsilon-sarcoglycans in the central nervous system. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 125:1-12. [PMID: 15193417 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbrainres.2004.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/24/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and delta-sarcoglycans (SGs) are transmembrane glycoprotein components of the dystrophin-associated protein (DAP) complex, which is critical for the stability of the striated muscle cell membrane. Epsilon-SG was found as a homologue of alpha-SG, but unlike other SG members, it is ubiquitously expressed in various tissues as well as in striated muscle. Moreover, mutations in the epsilon-SG gene cause myoclonus-dystonia, indicating the importance of epsilon-SG for the function in the central nervous system. To gain insight into the role of epsilon-SG, its expression and subcellular distribution in mouse tissues and especially in the mouse brain were investigated. Analysis by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction showed four splice variants of epsilon-SG transcripts in the mouse brain, two of which are major transcript forms. One is a conventional form including exon 8 (epsilon-SG1), and the other is a novel form excluding exon 8 but including a previously unknown exon, 11b (epsilon-SG2). Immunoblot analysis using various mouse tissues indicated a broad expression pattern for epsilon-SG1, but epsilon-SG2 was expressed exclusively in the brain. Therefore, both epsilon-SG isoforms coexist in various regions of the brain. Furthermore, these isoforms were found in neuronal cells using immunohistochemical analysis. Subcellular fractionation of brain homogenates, however, indicated that epsilon-SG1 and epsilon-SG2 are relatively enriched in post- and pre-synaptic membrane fractions, respectively. These results suggest that the two epsilon-SG isoforms might play different roles in synaptic functions of the central nervous system.
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- Akiyo Nishiyama
- Department of Molecular Therapy, National Institute of Neuroscience, Ogawahigashi-cho, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan
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Matsumura K, Arai K, Zhong D, Saito F, Fukuta-Ohi H, Maekawa R, Yamada H, Shimizu T. Disruption of dystroglycan axis by β-dystroglycan processing in cardiomyopathic hamster muscle. Neuromuscul Disord 2003; 13:796-803. [PMID: 14678802 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(03)00139-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Alpha-dystroglycan is a cell surface peripheral membrane protein which binds to the extracellular matrix, while beta-dystroglycan is a type I integral membrane protein which anchors alpha-dystroglycan to the cell membrane via the N-terminal extracellular domain. The complex composed of alpha- and beta-dystroglycan is called the dystroglycan complex. Although defects of the dystroglycan gene have not been identified as the primary causes of hereditary diseases in humans, secondary but significant abnormalities of the dystroglycan complex have been revealed in severe muscular dystrophies, including sarcoglycanopathy (LGMD2C, D, E and F). In this study, we investigated proteolytic processing of beta-dystroglycan and its effect on the extracellular matrix-cell membrane linkage in cardiomyopathic hamsters, the model animals of LGMD2F. Compared to normal controls, proteolytic processing of beta-dystroglycan was activated in the skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles of cardiomyopathic hamsters and this resulted in the partial disruption of the dystroglycan complex in these tissues. These phenomena were observed from the early phase of muscle degeneration process. Our results suggest that proteolytic processing of beta-dystroglycan disrupts the extracellular matrix-cell membrane linkage via the dystroglycan complex and this may play a role in the molecular pathogenesis of muscle degeneration in cardiomyopathic hamsters.
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- Kiichiro Matsumura
- Department of Neurology and Neuroscience, Teikyo University School of Medicine, 2-11-1 Kaga, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan.
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Iwata Y, Katanosaka Y, Arai Y, Komamura K, Miyatake K, Shigekawa M. A novel mechanism of myocyte degeneration involving the Ca2+-permeable growth factor-regulated channel. J Cell Biol 2003; 161:957-67. [PMID: 12796481 PMCID: PMC2172975 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.200301101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 203] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Disruption of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex caused by genetic defects of dystrophin or sarcoglycans results in muscular dystrophy and/or cardiomyopathy in humans and animal models. However, the key early molecular events leading to myocyte degeneration remain elusive. Here, we observed that the growth factor-regulated channel (GRC), which belongs to the transient receptor potential channel family, is elevated in the sarcolemma of skeletal and/or cardiac muscle in dystrophic human patients and animal models deficient in dystrophin or delta-sarcoglycan. However, total cell GRC does not differ markedly between normal and dystrophic muscles. Analysis of the properties of myotubes prepared from delta-sarcoglycan-deficient BIO14.6 hamsters revealed that GRC is activated in response to myocyte stretch and is responsible for enhanced Ca2+ influx and resultant cell damage as measured by creatine phosphokinase efflux. We found that cell stretch increases GRC translocation to the sarcolemma, which requires entry of external Ca2+. Consistent with these findings, cardiac-specific expression of GRC in a transgenic mouse model produced cardiomyopathy due to Ca2+ overloading, with disease expression roughly parallel to sarcolemmal GRC levels. The results suggest that GRC is a key player in the pathogenesis of myocyte degeneration caused by dystrophin-glycoprotein complex disruption.
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- Yuko Iwata
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
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Fanin M, Melacini P, Boito C, Pegoraro E, Angelini C. LGMD2E patients risk developing dilated cardiomyopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2003; 13:303-9. [PMID: 12868499 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(02)00280-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Sarcoglycan gene mutations cause various limb-girdle muscular dystrophies. The sarcoglycans are expressed both in skeletal and cardiac muscle but, surprisingly, so far only a few sarcoglycanopathy patients have had documented cardiomyopathy. We studied six patients with beta-sarcoglycanopathy. Immunohistochemical and immunoblot analysis performed on skeletal muscle biopsies from five patients, showed the loss of all sarcoglycans in three cases and marked reduction in two patients. Non-invasive cardiac examinations revealed that three patients had cardiac involvement: one had a severe Duchenne-like dystrophy, lethal dilated cardiomyopathy, and shared the same mutation reported in another cardiomyopathic patient; the other two patients had limb-girdle dystrophy and moderate cardiac involvement (one of them has a novel gene mutation). Given the age profile of the patients studied, the 50% cardiac involvement found in our LGMD2E patients is likely to be a conservative estimate. Careful cardiac monitoring should be carried out in beta-sarcoglycanopathy patients who are at high risk of developing cardiomyopathy.
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- M Fanin
- Department of Neurological and Psychiatric Sciences, University of Padova, via Giustiniani 5, 35128 Padova, Italy.
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Sasaoka T, Imamura M, Araishi K, Noguchi S, Mizuno Y, Takagoshi N, Hama H, Wakabayashi-Takai E, Yoshimoto-Matsuda Y, Nonaka I, Kaneko K, Yoshida M, Ozawa E. Pathological analysis of muscle hypertrophy and degeneration in muscular dystrophy in gamma-sarcoglycan-deficient mice. Neuromuscul Disord 2003; 13:193-206. [PMID: 12609501 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(02)00220-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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While calf muscle hypertrophy is a striking diagnostic finding in sarcoglycanopathy, as it is in Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, its pathogenetic mechanism remains unknown. gamma-Sarcoglycan, one of the subunits of the sarcoglycan complex, is the protein responsible for gamma-sarcoglycanopathy. To elucidate the pathogenetic mechanisms of muscle hypertrophy and degeneration in muscular dystrophy, we utilized a mutant mouse as a model animal. In this study, we generated gamma-sarcoglycan-deficient (gsg-/-) mice by gene targeting. The gsg-/- mice described here, similar to the gsg-/- mice reported previously (J Cell Biol 142 (1998) 1279), demonstrated skeletal and cardiac muscle degeneration. The limb, shoulder, and pelvic muscles of the gsg-/- mice exhibited progressive muscle hypertrophy and weakness with age, and the findings were similar to those seen in other mouse models for limb-girdle and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We found that the number of muscle fibers increased with age, and most of the fibers in the hypertrophic muscle were centrally nucleated regenerating fibers. Therefore, muscle hypertrophy of the gsg-/- mice may result from an increase of the number of muscle fibers and probable fiber branching and may not be due to the pseudohypertrophy caused by fibrous and fat tissue replacement, as has been long supposed in muscular dystrophy. The muscle pathology became more 'dystrophic' in mice over 1 year of age when there was a marked variation in fiber size with interstitial fibrosis.
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MESH Headings
- Age Factors
- Animals
- Basement Membrane/physiopathology
- Blotting, Southern
- Cell Line
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/deficiency
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/genetics
- Cytoskeletal Proteins/metabolism
- DNA, Complementary
- Disease Models, Animal
- Dystroglycans
- Female
- Growth Substances
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Hypertrophy
- Immunohistochemistry
- Male
- Membrane Glycoproteins/deficiency
- Membrane Glycoproteins/genetics
- Membrane Glycoproteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/pathology
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscle, Skeletal/pathology
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/genetics
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/metabolism
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/pathology
- Muscular Dystrophy, Animal/physiopathology
- Peptides
- Phenotype
- Regeneration/physiology
- Sarcoglycans
- Survival
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- Toshikuni Sasaoka
- National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, 4-1-1 Ogawahigashi, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8502, Japan.
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Crosbie RH, Dovico SA, Flanagan JD, Chamberlain JS, Ownby CL, Campbell KP. Characterization of aquaporin-4 in muscle and muscular dystrophy. FASEB J 2002; 16:943-9. [PMID: 12087055 DOI: 10.1096/fj.01-0327com] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Aquaporins are a growing family of transmembrane proteins that transport water and, in some cases, glycerol and urea across cellular membranes. Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) is enriched at the sarcolemma of skeletal muscle and may play a role in accommodating the rapid changes in cell volume and hydrostatic forces that occur during contraction in order to prevent damage to the sarcolemma. Recent evidence has shown that AQP4 is absent in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice, suggesting that AQP4 associates with dystrophin and has a role in the dystrophic process. To examine the relationship between aquaporins and muscle disease, and between aquaporins and dystrophin, we have investigated aquaporin expression in various mouse models of muscular dystrophy and cardiomyopathy before and after the onset of pathology. We find that AQP4 is expressed in prenecrotic mdx muscle despite the absence of dystrophin and that AQP4 is lost after the onset of muscle degeneration. Analysis of various dystrophin transgenic mice reveals that AQP4 is lost even when the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex is present, suggesting that loss of AQP4 is not directly resulting from loss of the DGC. AQP4 was also lost in muscular dystrophies caused by primary mutations in the sarcoglycan genes. Taken together, our data demonstrate that AQP4 loss in skeletal muscle correlates with muscular dystrophy and is a common feature of pathogenesis.
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- Rachelle H Crosbie
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Nakamura TY, Iwata Y, Sampaolesi M, Hanada H, Saito N, Artman M, Coetzee WA, Shigekawa M. Stretch-activated cation channels in skeletal muscle myotubes from sarcoglycan-deficient hamsters. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2001; 281:C690-9. [PMID: 11443068 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.2001.281.2.c690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Deficiency of delta-sarcoglycan (delta-SG), a component of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex, causes cardiomyopathy and skeletal muscle dystrophy in Bio14.6 hamsters. Using cultured myotubes prepared from skeletal muscle of normal and Bio14.6 hamsters (J2N-k strain), we investigated the possibility that the delta-SG deficiency may lead to alterations in ionic conductances, which may ultimately lead to myocyte damage. In cell-attached patches (with Ba(2+) as the charge carrier), an approximately 20-pS channel was observed in both control and Bio14.6 myotubes. This channel is also permeable to K(+) and Na(+) but not to Cl(-). Channel activity was increased by pressure-induced stretch and was reduced by GdCl(3) (>5 microM). The basal open probability of this channel was fourfold higher in Bio14.6 myotubes, with longer open and shorter closed times. This was mimicked by depolymerization of the actin cytoskeleton. In intact Bio14.6 myotubes, the unidirectional basal Ca(2+) influx was enhanced compared with control. This Ca(2+) influx was sensitive to GdCl(3), signifying that stretch-activated cation channels may have been responsible for Ca(2+) influx in Bio14.6 hamster myotubes. These results suggest a possible mechanism by which cell damage might occur in this animal model of muscular dystrophy.
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- T Y Nakamura
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Suita, Osaka 565-8565, Japan
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In this article, we review the molecular pathology of muscular dystrophies caused by defects of proteins located within or near cell membranes. These disorders include Bethlem myopathy, merosinopathy, dystrophinopathy, sarcoglycanopathies, integrinopathy, dysferlinopathy and caveolinopathy. We refer to these diseases collectively as sarcolemmopathy. Here, we describe the biological functions of these proteins in the context of muscular contractions and their roles in the infrastructure of muscle; defects of muscle infrastructures cause those diseases. As an example, in dystrophinopathy, cell membranes have mechanical defects due to the absence of dystrophin. Cracks of the cell membrane induced by muscle contraction may allow the influx and efflux of substances that trigger muscle cell degeneration. However, such cracks may be resealed on relaxation. In addition, dystrophinopathy causes secondary defects of various dystrophin-associated proteins suggesting that defects in cell signaling participate in the pathologic process. With regard to other sarcolemmopathies, we discuss pathological mechanisms based on available data.
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- E Ozawa
- National Institute of Neuroscience, NCNP, Tokyo, Japan.
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Mehler MF. Brain dystrophin, neurogenetics and mental retardation. BRAIN RESEARCH. BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS 2000; 32:277-307. [PMID: 10751678 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-0173(99)00090-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 134] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and the allelic disorder Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD) are common X-linked recessive neuromuscular disorders that are associated with a spectrum of genetically based developmental cognitive and behavioral disabilities. Seven promoters scattered throughout the huge DMD/BMD gene locus normally code for distinct isoforms of the gene product, dystrophin, that exhibit nervous system developmental, regional and cell-type specificity. Dystrophin is a complex plasmalemmal-cytoskeletal linker protein that possesses multiple functional domains, autosomal and X-linked homologs and associated binding proteins that form multiunit signaling complexes whose composition is unique to each cellular and developmental context. Through additional interactions with a variety of proteins of the extracellular matrix, plasma membrane, cytoskeleton and distinct intracellular compartments, brain dystrophin acquires the capability to participate in the modulatory actions of a large number of cellular signaling pathways. During neural development, dystrophin is expressed within the neural tube and selected areas of the embryonic and postnatal neuraxis, and may regulate distinct aspects of neurogenesis, neuronal migration and cellular differentiation. By contrast, in the mature brain, dystrophin is preferentially expressed by specific regional neuronal subpopulations within proximal somadendritic microdomains associated with synaptic terminal membranes. Increasing experimental evidence suggests that in adult life, dystrophin normally modulates synaptic terminal integrity, distinct forms of synaptic plasticity and regional cellular signal integration. At a systems level, dystrophin may regulate essential components of an integrated sensorimotor attentional network. Dystrophin deficiency in DMD/BMD patients and in the mdx mouse model appears to impair intracellular calcium homeostasis and to disrupt multiple protein-protein interactions that normally promote information transfer and signal integration from the extracellular environment to the nucleus within regulated microdomains. In DMD/BMD, the individual profiles of cognitive and behavioral deficits, mental retardation and other phenotypic variations appear to depend on complex profiles of transcriptional regulation associated with individual dystrophin mutations that result in the corresponding presence or absence of individual brain dystrophin isoforms that normally exhibit developmental, regional and cell-type-specific expression and functional regulation. This composite experimental model will allow fine-level mapping of cognitive-neurogenetic associations that encompass the interrelationships between molecular, cellular and systems levels of signal integration, and will further our understanding of complex gene-environmental interactions and the pathogenetic basis of developmental disorders associated with mental retardation.
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- M F Mehler
- Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, the Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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Holt KH, Crosbie RH, Venzke DP, Campbell KP. Biosynthesis of dystroglycan: processing of a precursor propeptide. FEBS Lett 2000; 468:79-83. [PMID: 10683445 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(00)01195-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Dystroglycan is a cytoskeleton-linked extracellular matrix receptor expressed in many cell types. Dystroglycan is composed of alpha- and beta-subunits which are encoded by a single mRNA. Using a heterologous mammalian expression system, we provide the first biochemical evidence of the alpha/beta-dystroglycan precursor propeptide prior to enzymatic cleavage. This 160 kDa dystroglycan propeptide is processed into alpha- and beta-dystroglycan (120 kDa and 43 kDa, respectively). We also demonstrate that the precursor propeptide is glycosylated and that blockade of asparagine-linked (N-linked) glycosylation did not prevent the cleavage of the dystroglycan precursor peptide. However, inhibition of N-linked glycosylation results in aberrant trafficking of the alpha- and beta-dystroglycan subunits to the plasma membrane. Thus, dystroglycan is synthesized as a precursor propeptide that is post-translationally cleaved and differentially glycosylated to yield alpha- and beta-dystroglycan.
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- K H Holt
- Department of Physiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Muscular dystrophy is a heterogeneous genetic disease that affects skeletal and cardiac muscle. The genetic defects associated with muscular dystrophy include mutations in dystrophin and its associated glycoproteins, the sarcoglycans. Furthermore, defects in dystrophin have been shown to cause a disruption of the normal expression and localization of the sarcoglycan complex. Thus, abnormalities of sarcoglycan are a common molecular feature in a number of dystrophies. By combining biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and human and mouse genetics, a growing understanding of the sarcoglycan complex is emerging. Sarcoglycan appears to be an important, independent mediator of dystrophic pathology in both skeletal muscle and heart. The absence of sarcoglycan leads to alterations of membrane permeability and apoptosis, two shared features of a number of dystrophies. beta-sarcoglycan and delta-sarcoglycan may form the core of the sarcoglycan subcomplex with alpha- and gamma-sarcoglycan less tightly associated to this core. The relationship of epsilon-sarcoglycan to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex remains unclear. Animals lacking alpha-, gamma- and delta-sarcoglycan have been described and provide excellent opportunities for further investigation of the function of sarcoglycan. Dystrophin with dystroglycan and laminin may be a mechanical link between the actin cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. By positioning itself in close proximity to dystrophin and dystroglycan, sarcoglycan may function to couple mechanical and chemical signals in striated muscle. Sarcoglycan may be an independent signaling or regulatory module whose position in the membrane is determined by dystrophin but whose function is carried out independent of the dystrophin-dystroglycan-laminin axis.
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- A A Hack
- Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Araishi K, Sasaoka T, Imamura M, Noguchi S, Hama H, Wakabayashi E, Yoshida M, Hori T, Ozawa E. Loss of the sarcoglycan complex and sarcospan leads to muscular dystrophy in beta-sarcoglycan-deficient mice. Hum Mol Genet 1999; 8:1589-98. [PMID: 10441321 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.9.1589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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beta-Sarcoglycan, one of the subunits of the sarcoglycan complex, is a transmembranous glycoprotein which associates with dystrophin and is the molecule responsible for beta-sarcoglycanopathy, a Duchenne-like autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy. To develop an animal model of beta-sarcoglycanopathy and to clarify the role of beta-sarcoglycan in the pathogenesis of the muscle degeneration in vivo, we developed beta-sarcoglycan-deficient mice using a gene targeting technique. beta-Sarcoglycan-deficient mice (BSG(-)(/-)mice) exhibited progressive muscular dystrophy with extensive degeneration and regeneration. The BSG(-)(/-)mice also exhibited muscular hypertrophy characteristic of beta-sarcoglycanopathy. Immunohistochemical and immunoblot analyses of BSG(-)(/-)mice demonstrated that deficiency of beta-sarcoglycan also caused loss of all of the other sarcoglycans as well as of sarcospan in the sarcolemma. On the other hand, laminin-alpha2, alpha- and beta-dystroglycan and dystrophin were still present in the sarcolemma. However, the dystrophin-dystroglycan complex in BSG(-)(/-)mice was unstable compared with that in the wild-type mice. Our data suggest that loss of the sarcoglycan complex and sarcospan alone is sufficient to cause muscular dystrophy, that beta-sarcoglycan is an important protein for formation of the sarcoglycan complex associated with sarcospan and that the role of the sarcoglycan complex and sarcospan may be to strengthen the dystrophin axis connecting the basement membrane with the cytoskeleton.
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- K Araishi
- Division of Cell Biology, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo, 187-8502, Japan
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A mechanistic definition of the dystrophic process is proposed, and the effects of growth factors vs. down-regulation of growth are critically analyzed. A conceptual scheme is presented to illustrate the steps leading to pathology, and various compensatory systems which ameliorate the pathology are examined, particularly in regards to the mdv mouse which is resistant to the deficiency of dystrophin, the main protein product of the Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DMD/BMD) gene. These compensatory systems are analyzed in terms of the differential resistance of fiber types to pathogenesis. The generation of a stable population of maturationally arrested centronucleated fibers which express the mature adult myosin isoforms is proposed to be the main strategy of mdx muscle to minimize apoptosis. Physiological properties of these fibers, such as utrophin expression, and high mitochondrial and endoplasmic reticulum content, together with probable increased glycerophosphorylcholine concentrations and facile access to the vascular system, are hypothesized to be instrumental in their resistance to pathogenesis. It is proposed that the major element that determines the susceptibility of most human muscles to the dystrophic process is their inability to arrest the maturation of regenerated fibers at the centronucleated stage with a concomitant expression of the adult myosins.
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- J P Infante
- Institute for Theoretical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Ithaca, NY 14852-4512, USA
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Crosbie RH, Lebakken CS, Holt KH, Venzke DP, Straub V, Lee JC, Grady RM, Chamberlain JS, Sanes JR, Campbell KP. Membrane targeting and stabilization of sarcospan is mediated by the sarcoglycan subcomplex. J Cell Biol 1999; 145:153-65. [PMID: 10189375 PMCID: PMC2148225 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.145.1.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/1998] [Revised: 03/02/1999] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC) is a multisubunit complex that spans the muscle plasma membrane and forms a link between the F-actin cytoskeleton and the extracellular matrix. The proteins of the DGC are structurally organized into distinct subcomplexes, and genetic mutations in many individual components are manifested as muscular dystrophy. We recently identified a unique tetraspan-like dystrophin-associated protein, which we have named sarcospan (SPN) for its multiple sarcolemma spanning domains (Crosbie, R.H., J. Heighway, D.P. Venzke, J.C. Lee, and K.P. Campbell. 1997. J. Biol. Chem. 272:31221-31224). To probe molecular associations of SPN within the DGC, we investigated SPN expression in normal muscle as a baseline for comparison to SPN's expression in animal models of muscular dystrophy. We show that, in addition to its sarcolemma localization, SPN is enriched at the myotendinous junction (MTJ) and neuromuscular junction (NMJ), where it is a component of both the dystrophin- and utrophin-glycoprotein complexes. We demonstrate that SPN is preferentially associated with the sarcoglycan (SG) subcomplex, and this interaction is critical for stable localization of SPN to the sarcolemma, NMJ, and MTJ. Our experiments indicate that assembly of the SG subcomplex is a prerequisite for targeting SPN to the sarcolemma. In addition, the SG- SPN subcomplex functions to stabilize alpha-dystroglycan to the muscle plasma membrane. Taken together, our data provide important information about assembly and function of the SG-SPN subcomplex.
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- R H Crosbie
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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The involvement of the sarcoglycan complex in the pathogenesis of muscular dystrophy is becoming increasingly clear. Sarcoglycan gene mutations lead to four forms of autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. Recent progress has been made with the identification of novel mutations and their correlations with disease. Through this research, a better understanding the molecular pathogenesis of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy has been gained. Finally, animal models are now being used to study viral-mediated gene transfer for the future treatment of this disease.
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- L E Lim
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
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Abnormal expression of the cytoskeletal protein dystrophin has deleterious consequences for skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and the central nervous system. A complete failure to express the protein produces Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), in which there is extensive and progressive skeletal muscle necrosis, the development of a life-threatening dilated cardiomyopathy, and mild mental retardation. Dystrophin binds the F-actin cytoskeleton and is normally expressed in a complex of transmembrane proteins (the "dystrophin protein complex") that interact with external components of the basal lamina. One pathogenic model for DMD (the "structural hypothesis") suggests that this complex forms a structural bridge between the external basal lamina and the internal cytoskeleton and that the absence of dystrophin produces a defect in membrane structural support that renders skeletal muscle susceptible to plasmalemmal ruptures (or "tears") during the course of contractile activity. This review attempts to critically evaluate the structural hypothesis for DMD and presents an opposing model (the "channel aggregation model") that highlights the role of dystrophin in organizing the membrane cytoskeleton and the role of the cytoskeleton in aggregating ion channels and neurotransmitter receptors. Since ion channel aggregation is a process that is common across organ systems, the idea that channel function can be altered when aggregated ion channels interact with a dystrophic cytoskeleton has immediate implications for the expression of the dystrophinopathies in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, and the central nervous system.
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- C G Carlson
- Department of Physiology, Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, Missouri 63501, USA
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Holt KH, Lim LE, Straub V, Venzke DP, Duclos F, Anderson RD, Davidson BL, Campbell KP. Functional rescue of the sarcoglycan complex in the BIO 14.6 hamster using delta-sarcoglycan gene transfer. Mol Cell 1998; 1:841-8. [PMID: 9660967 DOI: 10.1016/s1097-2765(00)80083-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Four types of limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) are known to be caused by mutations in distinct sarcoglycan genes. The BIO 14.6 hamster is a model for sarcoglycan-deficient LGMD with a deletion in the delta-sarcoglycan (delta-SG) gene. We investigated the function of the sarcoglycan complex and the feasibility of sarcoglycan gene transfer for LGMD using a recombinant delta-SG adenovirus in the BIO 14.6 hamster. We demonstrate extensive long-term expression of delta-sarcoglycan and rescue of the entire sarcoglycan complex, as well as restored stable association of alpha-dystroglycan with the sarcolemma. Importantly, muscle fibers expressing delta-sarcoglycan lack morphological markers of muscular dystrophy and exhibit restored plasma membrane integrity. In summary, the sarcoglycan complex is requisite for the maintenance of sarcolemmal integrity, and primary mutations in individual sarcoglycan components can be corrected in vivo.
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- K H Holt
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
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Yoshida T, Pan Y, Hanada H, Iwata Y, Shigekawa M. Bidirectional signaling between sarcoglycans and the integrin adhesion system in cultured L6 myocytes. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:1583-90. [PMID: 9430699 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.3.1583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The rat L6 skeletal muscle cell line was used to study expression of the dystrophin-containing glycoprotein complex and its interaction with the integrin system involved in the cell-matrix adhesion reaction. A complex of dystrophin and its associated proteins was fully expressed in L6 myotubes, from which anti-dystrophin or anti-alpha-sarcoglycan co-precipitated integrin alpha 5 beta 1 and other focal adhesion-associated proteins vinculin, talin, paxillin, and focal adhesion kinase. Immunostaining and confocal microscopy revealed that dystrophin, alpha-sarcoglycan, integrin alpha 5 beta 1, and vinculin exhibited overlapping distribution in the sarcolemma, especially at focal adhesion-like, spotty structures. Adhesion of cells to fibronectin- or collagen type I-coated dishes resulted in induction of tyrosine phosphorylation of alpha- and gamma-sarcoglycans but not beta-sarcoglycan. The same proteins were also tyrosine-phosphorylated when L6 cells in suspension were exposed to Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser peptide. All of these tyrosine phosphorylations were inhibited by herbimycin A. On the other hand, treatment of L6 myotubes with alpha- and gamma-sarcoglycan antisense oligodeoxynucleotides resulted in complete disappearance of alpha- and gamma-sarcoglycans and in significant reduction of levels of the associated focal adhesion proteins, which caused about 50% reduction of cell adhesion. These results indicate the existence of bidirectional communication between the dystrophin-containing complex and the integrin adhesion system in cultured L6 myocytes.
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- T Yoshida
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
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Sakamoto A, Ono K, Abe M, Jasmin G, Eki T, Murakami Y, Masaki T, Toyo-oka T, Hanaoka F. Both hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies are caused by mutation of the same gene, delta-sarcoglycan, in hamster: an animal model of disrupted dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:13873-8. [PMID: 9391120 PMCID: PMC28400 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.25.13873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 237] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Cardiomyopathy (CM) is a primary degenerative disease of myocardium and is traditionally categorized into hypertrophic and dilated CMs (HCM and DCM) according to its gross appearance. Cardiomyopathic hamster (CM hamster), a representative model of human hereditary CM, has HCM and DCM inbred sublines, both of which descend from the same ancestor. Herein we show that both HCM and DCM hamsters share a common defect in a gene for delta-sarcoglycan (delta-SG), the functional role of which is yet to be characterized. A breakpoint causing genomic deletion was found to be located at 6.1 kb 5' upstream of the second exon of delta-SG gene, and its 5' upstream region of more than 27.4 kb, including the authentic first exon of delta-SG gene, was deleted. This deletion included the major transcription initiation site, resulting in a deficiency of delta-SG transcripts with the consequent loss of delta-SG protein in all the CM hamsters, despite the fact that the protein coding region of delta-SG starting from the second exon was conserved in all the CM hamsters. We elucidated the molecular interaction of dystrophin-associated glycoproteins including delta-SG, by using an in vitro pull-down study and ligand overlay assay, which indicates the functional role of delta-SG in stabilizing sarcolemma. The present study not only identifies CM hamster as a valuable animal model for studying the function of delta-SG in vivo but also provides a genetic target for diagnosis and treatment of human CM.
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- A Sakamoto
- The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113, Japan.
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Le Rumeur E, Le Tallec N, Lewa CJ, Ravalec X, de Certaines JD. In vivo evidence of abnormal mechanical and oxidative functions in the exercised muscle of dystrophic hamsters by 31P-NMR. J Neurol Sci 1995; 133:16-23. [PMID: 8583220 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(95)00179-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Mechanical properties and metabolic adaptation to exercise in skeletal muscle of dystrophic hamsters were studied with an in vivo 31P-NMR multistep fatigue test. Three successive 20-min steps with increasing rhythms of tetanic stimulation were followed by a 20-min recovery period. Fatigue in dystrophic hamsters (DH) developed more rapidly and was greater than in normal hamsters (NH); total mechanical performance per min increased step by step in NH while it decreased in DH, showing a progressive mechanical impairment of the dystrophic muscles. ADP and PCr recovery rates were significantly reduced in DH muscles. Acidosis appeared in both DH and NH and persisted in DH throughout the test, suggesting reduced mitochondrial oxidative capacity of the dystrophic muscle. The pH recovery rate was reduced in DH muscles suggesting a reduction in export protons capacity. These results provide evidence of impaired mitochondrial function and intracellular ionic regulation in the dystrophic muscle, associated with the lack of dystrophin and dystrophin-associated glycoproteins in the DH.
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- E Le Rumeur
- Laboratoire de RMN en Biologie et Médecine, LRMBM, Rennes, France
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Adhalin is deficient in two forms of human muscular dystrophy, one due to mutations in the adhalin gene and one linked to an unidentified gene on chromosome 13. Because adhalin is deficient in skeletal and cardiac muscles of BIO 14.6 hamsters, which experience both myopathy and cardiomyopathy, cDNA encoding adhalin from BIO 14.6 hamster skeletal muscle was cloned and sequenced. Adhalin mRNA was expressed at normal levels in BIO 14.6 hamster cardiac muscle, and no mutation in adhalin coding sequence was found, indicating that the inherited myopathy and cardiomyopathy of the BIO 14.6 hamster are most likely not due to mutations in the adhalin gene.
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- S L Roberds
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242, USA
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Iwamoto T, Wakabayashi S, Shigekawa M. Growth factor-induced phosphorylation and activation of aortic smooth muscle Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:8996-9001. [PMID: 7721810 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.15.8996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Although the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger is one of the major Ca2+ extrusion systems in excitable tissues, little is known about its regulation via protein phosphorylation. We now present evidence that the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger is phosphorylated in quiescent and growth factor-stimulated cultured aortic smooth muscle cells. The Na+/Ca2+ exchanger was isolated from 32P-labeled cells by immunoprecipitation with a specific polyclonal antibody. Phosphorylation of the exchanger was increased by up to 1.7-fold in response to platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB), alpha-thrombin, or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA). However, angiotensin II did not enhance the phosphorylation significantly. The extent of phosphorylation appeared to correlate with the growth factor-induced increase in cell 1,2-diacylglycerol. At least four phosphopeptides (P1 to P4) were detected by tryptic phosphopeptide map analysis of the phosphorylated exchanger, suggesting that phosphorylation occurred at multiple sites. PDGF-BB and PMA increased phosphorylation of the same phosphopeptides (in particular P1). Phosphorylated amino acids were exclusively serine residues in both quiescent and stimulated cells. We found that growth factors enhanced Na+/Ca2+ exchange activity and that there was a good correlation between the growth factor-induced stimulations of phosphorylation and exchange activity. PDGF-BB-induced activation of the exchanger was abolished by prior long treatment of cells with PMA. These results suggest that the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger is activated by protein kinase C-dependent phosphorylation in response to growth factors in vascular smooth muscle cells.
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- T Iwamoto
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
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Iwata Y, Hanada H, Takahashi M, Shigekawa M. Ca(2+)-ATPase distributes differently in cardiac sarcolemma than dihydropyridine receptor alpha 1 subunit and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. FEBS Lett 1994; 355:65-8. [PMID: 7957965 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)01174-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have investigated the distribution of the sarcolemmal Ca2+ transporters in hamster and dog ventricular myocytes by immunocytochemical and membrane fractionation techniques. The data suggest that the DHP receptor alpha 1 subunit and the Na+/Ca2+ exchanger are present in surface sarcolemma as well as T-tubule membranes located at the cardiac dyads. Compared with these Ca2+ transporters, the sarcolemmal Ca(2+)-ATPase is much less abundant in the latter fraction. Thus the sarcolemmal Ca(2+)-ATPase seems to be located predominantly in surface sarcolemma.
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- Y Iwata
- Department of Molecular Physiology, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute, Osaka, Japan
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Roberds SL, Leturcq F, Allamand V, Piccolo F, Jeanpierre M, Anderson RD, Lim LE, Lee JC, Tomé FM, Romero NB. Missense mutations in the adhalin gene linked to autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy. Cell 1994; 78:625-33. [PMID: 8069911 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(94)90527-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 325] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Adhalin, the 50 kDa dystrophin-associated glycoprotein, is deficient in skeletal muscle of patients having severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy (SCARMD). In several North African families, SCARMD has been linked to chromosome 13q, but SCARMD has been excluded from linkage to this locus in other families. We have now cloned human adhalin cDNA and mapped the adhalin gene to chromosome 17q12-q21.33, excluding it from involvement in 13q-linked SCARMD. However, one allelic variant of a polymorphic microsatellite located within intron 6 of the adhalin gene cosegregated perfectly with the disease phenotype in a large family. Furthermore, missense mutations were identified within the adhalin gene that might cause SCARMD in this family. Thus, the adhalin gene is involved in at least one form of autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy.
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- S L Roberds
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City 52242
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