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246th ENMC International Workshop: Protein aggregate myopathies 24-26 May 2019, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands. Neuromuscul Disord 2020; 31:158-166. [PMID: 33303357 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2020.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Goebel HH, Fardeau M, Olivé M, Schröder R. 156th ENMC International Workshop: desmin and protein aggregate myopathies, 9-11 November 2007, Naarden, The Netherlands. Neuromuscul Disord 2008; 18:583-92. [PMID: 18595698 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2008.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- Hans H Goebel
- Johannes Gutenberg University, Medical Center, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
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Fidziańska A, Kotowicz J, Sadowska M, Goudeau B, Walczak E, Vicart P, Hausmanowa-Petrusewicz I. A novel desmin R355P mutation causes cardiac and skeletal myopathy. Neuromuscul Disord 2005; 15:525-31. [PMID: 16009553 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2005.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2005] [Revised: 05/16/2005] [Accepted: 05/20/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A novel desmin R355P mutation has been identified in a patient with familial cardiac and skeletal myopathy. Two types of desmin storage were observed in the skeletal muscles. The spheroid-like bodies dominated in type 2 fibres while extensive accumulation of granulofilamentous material was found in type 1 fibres and in cardiomyocytes. A novel missense mutation R355P in the rod domain located in the C-terminal part of the 2B subunit is the eighth missense mutation, which changes the original aminoacid into proline. Proline is known to disrupt the alpha-helix and distort a unique stutter sequence that is critically important for proper filament assembly.
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- Anna Fidziańska
- Neuromuscular Unit, MRC, Polish Academy of Science, Pawinskiego 5, Warsaw 02-106, Poland.
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Goebel H, Fardeau M. 121st ENMC International Workshop on Desmin and Protein Aggregate Myopathies. 7–9 November 2003, Naarden, The Netherlands. Neuromuscul Disord 2004; 14:767-73. [PMID: 15482963 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2004.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Hansh Goebel
- Department of Neuropathology, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55101 Mainz, Germany.
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Ferreiro A, Ceuterick-de Groote C, Marks JJ, Goemans N, Schreiber G, Hanefeld F, Fardeau M, Martin JJ, Goebel HH, Richard P, Guicheney P, Bönnemann CG. Desmin-related myopathy with mallory body-like inclusions is caused by mutations of the selenoprotein N gene. Ann Neurol 2004; 55:676-86. [PMID: 15122708 DOI: 10.1002/ana.20077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 157] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Desmin-related myopathies (DRMs) are a heterogeneous group of muscle disorders, morphologically defined by intrasarcoplasmic aggregates of desmin. Mutations in the desmin and the alpha-B crystallin genes account for approximately one third of the DRM cases. The genetic basis of the other forms remain unknown, including the early-onset, recessive form with Mallory body-like inclusions (MB-DRMs), first described in five related German patients. Recently, we identified the selenoprotein N gene (SEPN1) as responsible for SEPN-related myopathy (SEPN-RM), a unique early-onset myopathy formerly divided in two different nosological categories: rigid spine muscular dystrophy and the severe form of classical multiminicore disease. The finding of Mallory body-like inclusions in two cases of genetically documented SEPN-RM led us to suspect a relationship between MB-DRM and SEPN1. In the original MB-DRM German family, we demonstrated a linkage of the disease to the SEPN1 locus (1p36), and subsequently a homozygous SEPN1 deletion (del 92 nucleotide -19/+73) in the affected patients. A comparative reevaluation showed that MB-DRM and SEPN-RM share identical clinical features. Therefore, we propose that MB-DRM should be categorized as SEPN-RM. These findings substantiate the molecular heterogeneity of DRM, expand the morphological spectrum of SEPN-RM, and implicate a necessary reassessment of the nosological boundaries in early-onset myopathies.
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- Ana Ferreiro
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U582, Institut de Myologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
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The introduction and application of molecular techniques have commenced to influence and alter the nosology of congenital myopathies. Long-known entities such as nemaline myopathies, core diseases, and desmin-related myopathies have now been found to be caused by unequivocal mutations. Several of these mutations and their genes have been identified by analyzing aggregates of proteins within muscle fibers as a morphological hallmark as in desminopathy and actinopathy, the latter a subtype among the nemaline myopathies. Immunohistochemistry has played a crucial role in recognizing this new group of protein aggregate myopathies within the spectrum of congenital myopathies. It is to be expected that other congenital myopathies marked by inclusion bodies may turn out to be such protein aggregate myopathies, depending on analysis of individual proteins within these protein aggregates and their association with putative gene mutations.
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- Hans H Goebel
- Department of Neuropathology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Medical Center, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany.
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Goebel HH, Fardeau M. Desmin - Protein Surplus Myopathies, 96th European Neuromuscular Centre (ENMC)-sponsored International Workshop held 14-16 September 2001, Naarden, The Netherlands. Neuromuscul Disord 2002; 12:687-92. [PMID: 12207939 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(02)00024-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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- Hans H Goebel
- Department of Neuropathology, Mainz University Medical Center, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany.
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Goudeau B, Dagvadorj A, Rodrigues-Lima F, Nédellec P, Casteras-Simon M, Perret E, Langlois S, Goldfarb L, Vicart P. Structural and functional analysis of a new desmin variant causing desmin-related myopathy. Hum Mutat 2001; 18:388-96. [PMID: 11668632 DOI: 10.1002/humu.1210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Desmin-related myopathy is a familial or sporadic disease characterized by skeletal muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy as well as the presence of intracytoplasmic aggregates of desmin-reactive material in the muscle cells. Previously, two kinds of deletions and eight missense mutations have been identified in the desmin gene and proven to be responsible for the disorder. The present study was conducted to determine structural and functional defects in a pathogenic desmin variant that caused a disabling disorder in an isolated case presenting with distal and proximal limb muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy. We identified a novel heterozygous Q389P desmin mutation located at the C-terminal part of the rod domain as the causative mutation in this case. Transfection of desmin cDNA containing the patient's mutation into C2.7, MCF7, and SW13 cells demonstrated that the Q389P mutant is incapable of constructing a functional intermediate filament network and has a dominant negative effect on filament formation. We conclude that Q389P mutation is the molecular event leading to the development of desmin-related myopathy.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Cardiomyopathies/complications
- Cardiomyopathies/genetics
- Cardiomyopathies/physiopathology
- Cell Line
- Crystallins/genetics
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Desmin/chemistry
- Desmin/genetics
- Desmin/metabolism
- Genes, Dominant/genetics
- Genetic Variation/genetics
- Humans
- Intermediate Filaments/metabolism
- Intermediate Filaments/pathology
- Male
- Mice
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle Weakness/complications
- Muscle Weakness/genetics
- Muscle Weakness/physiopathology
- Mutation, Missense/genetics
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/complications
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/genetics
- Myopathies, Structural, Congenital/physiopathology
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Sequence Alignment
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
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- B Goudeau
- Laboratoire Cytosquelette et Développement, UMR CNRS 7000, Faculté de Médecine, Paris, France
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Desmin, the main intermediate filament (IF) protein in skeletal and heart muscle cells, is of great importance as a part of the cytoskeleton. The IFs surround and interlink myofibrils, and connect the peripheral myofibrils with the sarcolemma. In myotendinous junctions and neuromuscular junctions of skeletal muscle fibres, desmin is enriched. In the heart, desmin is increased at intercalated discs, the attachment between cardiomyocytes, and it is the main component in Purkinje fibres of the conduction system. Desmin is the first muscle-specific protein to appear during myogenesis. Nevertheless, lack of desmin, as shown from experiments with desmin knockout (K/O) mice, does not influence myogenesis or myofibrillogenesis. However, the desmin knock-out mice postnatally develop a cardiomyopathy and a muscle dystrophy in highly used skeletal muscles. In other skeletal muscles the organization of myofibrils is remarkably unaffected. Thus, the main consequence of the lack of desmin is that the muscle fibres become more susceptible to damage. The loss of membrane integrity leads to a dystrophic process, with degeneration and fibrosis. In the heart cardiac failure develops, whereas in affected skeletal muscles regenerative attempts are seen. In humans, accumulations of desmin have been a hallmark for presumptive desmin myopathies. Recent investigations have shown that some families with such a myopathy have a defect in the gene coding for alphaB-crystallin, whereas others have mutations in the desmin gene. Typical features of these patients are cardiac affections and muscle weakness. Thus, mutations in the desmin gene is pathogenic for a distinct type of muscle disorder.
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- L Carlsson
- Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Section for Anatomy, Umeå University, and Centre for Musculoskeletal Research, National Institute of Working Life, Umeå, Sweden
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Certain muscular dystrophies are marked by absence or reduction of mutant proteins, foremost dystrophinopathies and sarcoglycanopathies. Conversely, other sporadic and familial neuromuscular conditions are marked by a surplus of proteins present in a granular or filamentous form, such as desmin-related myopathies, actinopathy and, perhaps, hyaline body myopathy. This emerging group of congenital myopathies is clinically, immunohistochemically, and genetically diverse. Clinically, early- and late-onset diseases with variable courses are described. Immunohistochemically, mutant gene-related and other proteins have been identified by immunohistochemistry. Mutations in the desmin and alpha-B crystallin genes have been discovered in desminopathies. Mutations in the actin gene, but in no other genes have been revealed in actinopathy. Surplus sarcoplasmic and/or intranuclear nemaline bodies have been related to mutant tropomyosin-3, actin and nebulin genes. This emerging concept of surplus protein myopathies will require substantial investigation to further interpret the results of present and future studies.
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- H H Goebel
- Department of Neuropathology, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Langenbeckstrasse 1, D-55131, Mainz, Germany.
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Müller-Höcker J, Schäfer S, Mendel B, Lochmüller H, Pongratz D. Nemaline cardiomyopathy in a young adult: an ultraimmunohistochemical study and review of the literature. Ultrastruct Pathol 2000; 24:407-16. [PMID: 11206338 DOI: 10.1080/019131200750060078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Heart transplantation was performed in a 26-year-old man who suffered from severe dilatative cardiomyopathy. A nemaline myopathy characterized by the accumulation of Z-line material and the formation of rod-like structures had been diagnosed in the skeletal muscle. Routine light microscopy of the heart disclosed only nonspecific findings. On electron microscopy scattered cardiomyocytes showed formations of rod-like structures and a structural desintegration of contractile filaments near the intercalated disks. Immunocytochemistry at the light and electron microscopical level exhibited an accumulation of alpha-actinin, desmin, and occasionally vinculin in abnormal cardiomyocytes. The rods were specifically stained with alpha-actinin and were less immunoreactive for desmin. No mutations were revealed in the skeletal muscle alpha-actin gene. The results illustrate a complex derangement of the cytoskeletal apparatus in nemaline cardiomyopathy. Nemaline cardiomyopathy may be difficult to diagnose in routine diagnostic procedures. A close correlation between the severity of cardiac dysfunction and the morphological expression of the disease in the heart may not be found. Nemaline cardiomyopathy should be included in the differential diagnosis of dilatative cardiomyopathy and may be diagnosed with certainty by ultrastructural-immunhistochemical investigations.
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- J Müller-Höcker
- Pathologisches Institut der Ludwig-Maxilians-Universität München, Germany
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Sjöberg G, Saavedra-Matiz CA, Rosen DR, Wijsman EM, Borg K, Horowitz SH, Sejersen T. A missense mutation in the desmin rod domain is associated with autosomal dominant distal myopathy, and exerts a dominant negative effect on filament formation. Hum Mol Genet 1999; 8:2191-8. [PMID: 10545598 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.12.2191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In some myopathies of distal onset, the intermediate filament desmin is abnormally accumulated in skeletal and cardiac muscle. We report the first point mutation in desmin cosegregating with an autosomal dominant form of desmin-related myopathy. The L345P desmin missense mutation occurs in a large, six generation Ashkenazi Jewish family. The mutation is located in an evolutionarily highly conserved position of the desmin coiled-coil rod domain important for dimer formation. L345P desmin is incapable of forming filamentous networks in transfected HeLa and SW13 cells. We conclude that the L345P desmin missense mutation causes myopathy by interfering in a dominant-negative manner with the dimerization-polymerization process of intermediate filament assembly.
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- G Sjöberg
- Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Cytoplasmic body myopathy (CBM) and desmin-related myopathy (DRM) are both characterized by an abnormal accumulation of desmin. To determine whether these abnormalities involve similar or different forms of desmin, we performed desmin two-dimensional electrophoresis: our results showed an increase in the two acidic isoforms in CBM muscles as compared with an increase in the number of acidic isovariants in DRM samples. A process of hyperphosphorylation involved in these acidic forms was confirmed by alkaline phosphatase application onto the muscle samples in both pathological conditions.
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- A Caron
- Laboratory of Neuropathology, Centre Hospitalier Regional et Universitaire de Caen, Côte de Nacre, F-14033 Caen, France
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Vicart P, Caron A, Guicheney P, Li Z, Prévost MC, Faure A, Chateau D, Chapon F, Tomé F, Dupret JM, Paulin D, Fardeau M. A missense mutation in the alphaB-crystallin chaperone gene causes a desmin-related myopathy. Nat Genet 1998; 20:92-5. [PMID: 9731540 DOI: 10.1038/1765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 789] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Desmin-related myopathies (DRM) are inherited neuromuscular disorders characterized by adult onset and delayed accumulation of aggregates of desmin, a protein belonging to the type III intermediate filament family, in the sarcoplasma of skeletal and cardiac muscles. In this paper, we have mapped the locus for DRM in a large French pedigree to a 26-cM interval in chromosome 11q21-23. This region contains the alphaB-crystallin gene (CRYAB), a candidate gene encoding a 20-kD protein that is abundant in lens and is also present in a number of non-ocular tissues, including cardiac and skeletal muscle. AlphaB-crystallin is a member of the small heat shock protein (shsp) family and possesses molecular chaperone activity. We identified an R120G missense mutation in CRYAB that co-segregates with the disease phenotype in this family. Muscle cell lines transfected with the mutant CRYAB cDNA showed intracellular aggregates that contain both desmin and alphaB-crystallin as observed in muscle fibers from DRM patients. These results are the first to identify a defect in a molecular chaperone as a cause for an inherited human muscle disorder.
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- P Vicart
- Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.
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Based on morphological abnormalities, congenital myopathies can be classified into several categories: (1) enzyme histochemically abnormal appearance without structural pathology, e.g., congenital fibre type disproportion or congenital fibre type uniformity; (2) abnormally placed nuclei, e.g. myotubular and centronuclear myopathies; (3) disruption of normal intrinsic structures, largely sarcomeres, e.g. central cores and minicores; (4) abnormal inclusions within muscle fibres. Several such inclusions are derived from pre-existing structures, most notably rods or nemaline bodies. Other derivatives of Z-band material are cytoplasmic bodies and possibly related inclusions as spheroid bodies, sarcoplasmic bodies or Mallory body-like inclusions. These inclusions share accumulation of desmin, the muscle fibre-specific intermediate filament, and of other proteins, some of them physiological, but others quite abnormal. Inclusions without identified precursors are fingerprint bodies, reducing bodies, cylindrical spirals, and Zebra bodies. Experimental models and tissue culture reproduction are necessary to further clarify significance of these inclusions in congenital myopathy pathology.
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- H H Goebel
- Department of Neuropathology, Mainz University Medical Center, Germany.
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Lobrinus JA, Janzer RC, Kuntzer T, Matthieu JM, Pfend G, Goy JJ, Bogousslavsky J. Familial cardiomyopathy and distal myopathy with abnormal desmin accumulation and migration. Neuromuscul Disord 1998; 8:77-86. [PMID: 9608560 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(98)00005-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Desminopathies form a heterogeneous group of myopathies characterised by pathological aggregations of desmin. We report a family, where mother and daughter presented with an atrioventricular block and a slowly progressive distal muscular weakness, with non-homogeneous focal atrophy on computed tomography scans. The mother developed a severe global heart insufficiency necessitating a heart transplantation at 56 years of age. Skeletal muscle biopsies were characterised by inclusion bodies strongly expressing desmin and alpha B-crystallin, with a predominantly subsarcolemmal localisation. Ultrastructurally most inclusions corresponded to non-membrane bound granulo-filamentous material with disruption of myofibrils. An immunoblot showed a hyperintense desmin band at 53 kDa and a second band at 49 kDa, the latter being absent in controls. The cardiac muscle of the explanted heart showed very similar inclusions. These cases illustrate that in this distinct subtype of desminopathies the cardiac muscle alterations are comparable with those observed in skeletal muscle, and suggest the possibility of a primary desmin pathology.
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- J A Lobrinus
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Li Z, Mericskay M, Agbulut O, Butler-Browne G, Carlsson L, Thornell LE, Babinet C, Paulin D. Desmin is essential for the tensile strength and integrity of myofibrils but not for myogenic commitment, differentiation, and fusion of skeletal muscle. J Cell Biol 1997; 139:129-44. [PMID: 9314534 PMCID: PMC2139820 DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.1.129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 264] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/1997] [Revised: 07/04/1997] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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A null mutation was introduced into the mouse desmin gene by homologous recombination. The desmin knockout mice (Des -/-) develop normally and are fertile. However, defects were observed after birth in skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles (Li, Z., E. Colucci-Guyon, M. Pincon-Raymond, M. Mericskay, S. Pournin, D. Paulin, and C. Babinet. 1996. Dev. Biol. 175:362-366; Milner, D.J., G. Weitzer, D. Tran, A. Bradley, and Y. Capetanaki. 1996. J. Cell Biol. 134:1255- 1270). In the present study we have carried out a detailed analysis of somitogenesis, muscle formation, maturation, degeneration, and regeneration in Des -/- mice. Our results demonstrate that all early stages of muscle differentiation and cell fusion occur normally. However, after birth, modifications were observed essentially in weight-bearing muscles such as the soleus or continually used muscles such as the diaphragm and the heart. In the absence of desmin, mice were weaker and fatigued more easily. The lack of desmin renders these fibers more susceptible to damage during contraction. We observed a process of degeneration of myofibers, accompanied by macrophage infiltration, and followed by a process of regeneration. These cycles of degeneration and regeneration resulted in a relative increase in slow myosin heavy chain (MHC) and decrease in fast MHC. Interestingly, this second wave of myofibrillogenesis during regeneration was often aberrant and showed signs of disorganization. Subsarcolemmal accumulation of mitochondria were also observed in these muscles. The lack of desmin was not compensated by an upregulation of vimentin in these mice either during development or regeneration. Absence of desmin filaments within the sarcomere does not interfere with primary muscle formation or regeneration. However, myofibrillogenesis in regenerating fibers is often abortive, indicating that desmin may be implicated in this repair process. The results presented here show that desmin is essential to maintain the structural integrity of highly solicited skeletal muscle.
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- Z Li
- Station Centrale de Microscopie Electronique, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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