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Vlachakis D, Tsilafakis K, Kostavasili I, Kossida S, Mavroidis M. Unraveling Desmin's Head Domain Structure and Function. Cells 2024; 13:603. [PMID: 38607042 PMCID: PMC11012097 DOI: 10.3390/cells13070603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2024] [Revised: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/21/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024] Open
Abstract
Understanding the structure and function of intermediate filaments (IFs) is necessary in order to explain why more than 70 related IF genes have evolved in vertebrates while maintaining such dramatically tissue-specific expression. Desmin is a member of the large multigene family of IF proteins and is specifically expressed in myocytes. In an effort to elucidate its muscle-specific behavior, we have used a yeast two-hybrid system in order to identify desmin's head binding partners. We described a mitochondrial and a lysosomal protein, NADH ubiquinone oxidoreductase core subunit S2 (NDUFS2), and saposin D, respectively, as direct desmin binding partners. In silico analysis indicated that both interactions at the atomic level occur in a very similar way, by the formation of a three-helix bundle with hydrophobic interactions in the interdomain space and hydrogen bonds at R16 and S32 of the desmin head domain. The interactions, confirmed also by GST pull-down assays, indicating the necessity of the desmin head domain and, furthermore, point out its role in function of mitochondria and lysosomes, organelles which are disrupted in myopathies due to desmin head domain mutations.
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- Dimitrios Vlachakis
- Biotechnology Department, Agricultural University of Athens, 11855 Athens, Greece;
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- Center of Basic Research, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephesiou, 11527 Athens, Greece; (K.T.); (I.K.)
- Biochemistry & Biotechnology Department, University of Thessaly, 41500 Larisa, Greece
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- Center of Basic Research, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephesiou, 11527 Athens, Greece; (K.T.); (I.K.)
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- IMGT, The International ImMunoGeneTics Information System, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institute of Human Genetics (IGH), University of Montpellier (UM), 34090 Montpellier, France;
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- Center of Basic Research, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Ephesiou, 11527 Athens, Greece; (K.T.); (I.K.)
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Claeyssen C, Bulangalire N, Bastide B, Agbulut O, Cieniewski-Bernard C. Desmin and its molecular chaperone, the αB-crystallin: How post-translational modifications modulate their functions in heart and skeletal muscles? Biochimie 2024; 216:137-159. [PMID: 37827485 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2023.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2023] [Revised: 08/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
Abstract
Maintenance of the highly organized striated muscle tissue requires a cell-wide dynamic network through protein-protein interactions providing an effective mechanochemical integrator of morphology and function. Through a continuous and complex trans-cytoplasmic network, desmin intermediate filaments ensure this essential role in heart and in skeletal muscle. Besides their role in the maintenance of cell shape and architecture (permitting contractile activity efficiency and conferring resistance towards mechanical stress), desmin intermediate filaments are also key actors of cell and tissue homeostasis. Desmin participates to several cellular processes such as differentiation, apoptosis, intracellular signalisation, mechanotransduction, vesicle trafficking, organelle biogenesis and/or positioning, calcium homeostasis, protein homeostasis, cell adhesion, metabolism and gene expression. Desmin intermediate filaments assembly requires αB-crystallin, a small heat shock protein. Over its chaperone activity, αB-crystallin is involved in several cellular functions such as cell integrity, cytoskeleton stabilization, apoptosis, autophagy, differentiation, mitochondria function or aggresome formation. Importantly, both proteins are known to be strongly associated to the aetiology of several cardiac and skeletal muscles pathologies related to desmin filaments disorganization and a strong disturbance of desmin interactome. Note that these key proteins of cytoskeleton architecture are extensively modified by post-translational modifications that could affect their functional properties. Therefore, we reviewed in the herein paper the impact of post-translational modifications on the modulation of cellular functions of desmin and its molecular chaperone, the αB-crystallin.
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- Charlotte Claeyssen
- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France
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- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France; Université de Lille, CHU Lille, F-59000 Lille, France
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- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), CNRS UMR 8256, Inserm ERL U1164, Biological Adaptation and Ageing, 75005, Paris, France
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- University of Lille, University of Artois, University of Littoral Côte d'Opale, ULR 7369 - URePSSS - Unité de Recherche Pluridisciplinaire Sport Santé Société, F-59000 Lille, France.
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Hakibilen C, Delort F, Daher MT, Joanne P, Cabet E, Cardoso O, Bourgois-Rocha F, Tian C, Rivas E, Madruga M, Ferreiro A, Lilienbaum A, Vicart P, Agbulut O, Hénon S, Batonnet-Pichon S. Desmin Modulates Muscle Cell Adhesion and Migration. Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:783724. [PMID: 35350386 PMCID: PMC8957967 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.783724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Cellular adhesion and migration are key functions that are disrupted in numerous diseases. We report that desmin, a type-III muscle-specific intermediate filament, is a novel cell adhesion regulator. Expression of p.R406W mutant desmin, identified in patients with desmin-related myopathy, modified focal adhesion area and expression of adhesion-signaling genes in myogenic C2C12 cells. Satellite cells extracted from desmin-knock-out (DesKO) and desmin-knock-in-p.R405W (DesKI-R405W) mice were less adhesive and migrated faster than those from wild-type mice. Moreover, we observed mislocalized and aggregated vinculin, a key component of cell adhesion, in DesKO and DesKI-R405W muscles. Vinculin expression was also increased in desmin-related myopathy patient muscles. Together, our results establish a novel role for desmin in cell-matrix adhesion, an essential process for strength transmission, satellite cell migration and muscle regeneration. Our study links the patho-physiological mechanisms of desminopathies to adhesion/migration defects, and may lead to new cellular targets for novel therapeutic approaches.
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), CNRS UMR 8256, INSERM ERL U1164, Biological Adaptation and Ageing, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, Paris, France
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- Department of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
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- Servicio de Anatomia Patologica, Hospital Universitario Virgen Del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Unidad de Neurologia Pediatrica, Hospital Universitario Virgen Del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain
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- Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, Paris, France.,APHP, Centre de Référence Maladies Neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile-de-France, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, Paris, France.,Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), CNRS UMR 8256, INSERM ERL U1164, Biological Adaptation and Ageing, Paris, France.,Université de Paris, MSC, UMR 7067, CNRS, Paris, France.,Department of Neurology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States.,Servicio de Anatomia Patologica, Hospital Universitario Virgen Del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain.,Unidad de Neurologia Pediatrica, Hospital Universitario Virgen Del Rocio, Sevilla, Spain.,APHP, Centre de Référence Maladies Neuromusculaires Nord/Est/Ile-de-France, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Institut de Biologie Paris-Seine (IBPS), CNRS UMR 8256, INSERM ERL U1164, Biological Adaptation and Ageing, Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, MSC, UMR 7067, CNRS, Paris, France
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Kural Mangit E, Boustanabadimaralan Düz N, Dinçer P. A cytoplasmic escapee: desmin is going nuclear. Turk J Biol 2022; 45:711-719. [PMID: 35068951 PMCID: PMC8733954 DOI: 10.3906/biy-2107-54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2021] [Accepted: 11/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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It has been a long time since researchers have focused on the cytoskeletal proteins' unconventional functions in the nucleus. Subcellular localization of a protein not only affects its functions but also determines the accessibility for cellular processes. Desmin is a muscle-specific, cytoplasmic intermediate filament protein, the cytoplasmic roles of which are defined. Yet, there is some evidence pointing out nuclear functions for desmin. In silico and wet lab analysis shows that desmin can enter and function in the nucleus. Furthermore, the candidate nuclear partners of desmin support the notion that desmin can serve as a transcriptional regulator inside the nucleus. Uncovering the nuclear functions and partners of desmin will provide a new insight into the biological significance of desmin.
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- Ecem Kural Mangit
- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey.,Laboratory Animals Research and Application Centre, Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey
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- Department of Medical Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara Turkey
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Abou Ziki MD, Bhat N, Neogi A, Driscoll TP, Ugwu N, Liu Y, Smith E, Abboud JM, Chouairi S, Schwartz MA, Akar JG, Mani A. Epistatic interaction of PDE4DIP and DES mutations in familial atrial fibrillation with slow conduction. Hum Mutat 2021; 42:1279-1293. [PMID: 34289528 DOI: 10.1002/humu.24265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2021] [Revised: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The genetic causes of atrial fibrillation (AF) with slow conduction are unknown. Eight kindreds with familial AF and slow conduction, including a family affected by early-onset AF, heart block, and incompletely penetrant nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) underwent whole exome sequencing. A known pathogenic mutation in the desmin (DES) gene resulting in p.S13F substitution (NM_001927.3:c.38C>T) at a PKC phosphorylation site was identified in all four members of the kindred with early-onset AF and heart block, while only two developed DCM. Higher penetrance for AF and heart block prompted a genetic screening for DES modifier(s). A deleterious mutation in the phosphodiesterase-4D-interacting-protein (PDE4DIP) gene resulting in p.A123T substitution (NM_001002811:c.367G>A) was identified that segregated with early-onset AF, heart block, and the DES mutation. Three additional novel deleterious PDE4DIP mutations were identified in four other unrelated kindreds. Characterization of PDE4DIPA123T in vitro suggested impaired compartmentalization of PKA and PDE4D characterized by reduced colocalization with PDE4D, increased cAMP activation leading to higher PKA phosphorylation of the β2-adrenergic-receptor, and decreased PKA phosphorylation of desmin after isoproterenol stimulation. Our findings identify PDE4DIP as a novel gene for slow AF and unravel its epistatic interaction with DES mutations in development of conduction disease and arrhythmia.
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- Maen D Abou Ziki
- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.,Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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Nicolau S, Howe BM, Naddaf E. Novel Desmin Mutation Causing Myofibrillar Myopathy in a Hmong Family. Front Neurol 2020; 10:1375. [PMID: 31998224 PMCID: PMC6965354 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2019.01375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Myofibrillar myopathies (MFM) are a clinically and genetically heterogenous group of inherited myopathies characterized by aggregation of Z-disc proteins. Mutations in desmin account for ~7% of MFM. We report here a Hmong family with an autosomal dominant MFM caused by a novel variant in the desmin gene. The proband presented with lower limb followed by upper limb weakness starting in the 5th decade. On examination, there was distal more than proximal muscle weakness. One sibling was similarly affected, while another had an asymptomatic elevation of creatine kinase. Genetic testing revealed a novel p.Ser13Tyr variant, which was predicted by in silico algorithms to alter protein function. Muscle biopsy revealed a MFM. Muscle MRI demonstrated selective involvement of the tensor fasciae latae, semitendinosus, sartorius, gracilis, gastrocnemius, soleus, and peroneus longus muscles. In this family, the histological and MRI findings assisted in the interpretation of genetic testing results.
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- Stefan Nicolau
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States
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Brodehl A, Gaertner-Rommel A, Milting H. Molecular insights into cardiomyopathies associated with desmin (DES) mutations. Biophys Rev 2018; 10:983-1006. [PMID: 29926427 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-018-0429-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2018] [Accepted: 05/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Increasing usage of next-generation sequencing techniques pushed during the last decade cardiogenetic diagnostics leading to the identification of a huge number of genetic variants in about 170 genes associated with cardiomyopathies, channelopathies, or syndromes with cardiac involvement. Because of the biochemical and cellular complexity, it is challenging to understand the clinical meaning or even the relevant pathomechanisms of the majority of genetic sequence variants. However, detailed knowledge about the associated molecular pathomechanism is essential for the development of efficient therapeutic strategies in future and genetic counseling. Mutations in DES, encoding the muscle-specific intermediate filament protein desmin, have been identified in different kinds of cardiac and skeletal myopathies. Here, we review the functions of desmin in health and disease with a focus on cardiomyopathies. In addition, we will summarize the genetic and clinical literature about DES mutations and will explain relevant cell and animal models. Moreover, we discuss upcoming perspectives and consequences of novel experimental approaches like genome editing technology, which might open a novel research field contributing to the development of efficient and mutation-specific treatment options.
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- Andreas Brodehl
- Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research & Development, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Georgstrasse 11, 32545, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
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- Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research & Development, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Georgstrasse 11, 32545, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
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- Erich and Hanna Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research & Development, Heart and Diabetes Centre NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, Georgstrasse 11, 32545, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
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Boulé S, Richard P, de Groote P, Renaud F, Charron P. Recurrent suspected myocarditis combined with infrahisian conduction disturbances revealing a desminopathy. HeartRhythm Case Rep 2015; 1:305-309. [PMID: 28491573 PMCID: PMC5419530 DOI: 10.1016/j.hrcr.2015.04.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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- Stéphane Boulé
- Lille University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Lille, France
- Address reprint requests and correspondence: Stéphane Boulé, Pôle de Cardiologie, Hôpital Cardiologique, CHRU, 59370, Lille, France
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- AP-HP, Unité fonctionnelle de Cardiogénétique et Myogénétique, Service de Biochimie métabolique, Hôpitaux Universitaires Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- AP-HP, Centre de référence maladies cardiaques héréditaires, ICAN, Inserm UMR_1166, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
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- Lille University Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Lille, France
- Unité INSERM U744, Institut Pasteur, Lille, France
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- Lille University Hospital, Institute of Pathology, Lille, France
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- AP-HP, Centre de référence maladies cardiaques héréditaires, ICAN, Inserm UMR_1166, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France
- Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, AP-HP, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
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Weihl CC, Iyadurai S, Baloh RH, Pittman SK, Schmidt RE, Lopate G, Pestronk A, Harms MB. Autophagic vacuolar pathology in desminopathies. Neuromuscul Disord 2014; 25:199-206. [PMID: 25557463 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2014.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Revised: 11/11/2014] [Accepted: 12/08/2014] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Autophagic vacuolar myopathies are an emerging group of muscle diseases with common pathologic features. These include autophagic vacuoles containing both lysosomal and autophagosomal proteins sometimes lined with sarcolemmal proteins such as dystrophin. These features have been most clearly described in patients with Danon's disease due to LAMP2 deficiency and X-linked myopathy with excessive autophagy (XMEA) due to mutations in VMA21. Disruptions of these proteins lead to lysosomal dysfunction and subsequent autophagic vacuolar pathology. We performed whole exome sequencing on two families with autosomal dominantly inherited myopathies with autophagic vacuolar pathology and surprisingly identified a p.R454W tail domain mutation and a novel p.S6W head domain mutation in desmin, DES. In addition, re-evaluation of muscle tissue from another family with a novel p.I402N missense DES mutation also identified autophagic vacuoles. We suggest that autophagic vacuoles may be an underappreciated pathology present in desminopathy patient muscle. Moreover, autophagic vacuolar pathology can be due to genetic etiologies unrelated to primary defects in the lysosomes or autophagic machinery. Specifically, cytoskeletal derangement and the accumulation of aggregated proteins such as desmin may activate the autophagic system leading to the pathologic features of an autophagic vacuolar myopathy.
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- Conrad C Weihl
- Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurologic Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Regenerative Medicine Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurologic Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurologic Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurologic Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Hope Center for Neurologic Disorders, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA
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Patel DM, Green KJ. Desmosomes in the Heart: A Review of Clinical and Mechanistic Analyses. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2014; 21:109-28. [DOI: 10.3109/15419061.2014.906533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Winter DL, Paulin D, Mericskay M, Li Z. Posttranslational modifications of desmin and their implication in biological processes and pathologies. Histochem Cell Biol 2013; 141:1-16. [DOI: 10.1007/s00418-013-1148-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/19/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Desminopathies: pathology and mechanisms. Acta Neuropathol 2013; 125:47-75. [PMID: 23143191 PMCID: PMC3535371 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-012-1057-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 162] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2012] [Revised: 10/15/2012] [Accepted: 10/18/2012] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
Abstract
The intermediate filament protein desmin is an essential component of the extra-sarcomeric cytoskeleton in muscle cells. This three-dimensional filamentous framework exerts central roles in the structural and functional alignment and anchorage of myofibrils, the positioning of cell organelles and signaling events. Mutations of the human desmin gene on chromosome 2q35 cause autosomal dominant, autosomal recessive, and sporadic myopathies and/or cardiomyopathies with marked phenotypic variability. The disease onset ranges from childhood to late adulthood. The clinical course is progressive and no specific treatment is currently available for this severely disabling disease. The muscle pathology is characterized by desmin-positive protein aggregates and degenerative changes of the myofibrillar apparatus. The molecular pathophysiology of desminopathies is a complex, multilevel issue. In addition to direct effects on the formation and maintenance of the extra-sarcomeric intermediate filament network, mutant desmin affects essential protein interactions, cell signaling cascades, mitochondrial functions, and protein quality control mechanisms. This review summarizes the currently available data on the epidemiology, clinical phenotypes, myopathology, and genetics of desminopathies. In addition, this work provides an overview on the expression, filament formation processes, biomechanical properties, post-translational modifications, interaction partners, subcellular localization, and functions of wild-type and mutant desmin as well as desmin-related cell and animal models.
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van Spaendonck-Zwarts KY, van der Kooi AJ, van den Berg MP, Ippel EF, Boven LG, Yee WC, van den Wijngaard A, Brusse E, Hoogendijk JE, Doevendans PA, de Visser M, Jongbloed JDH, van Tintelen JP. Recurrent and founder mutations in the Netherlands: the cardiac phenotype of DES founder mutations p.S13F and p.N342D. Neth Heart J 2012; 20:219-28. [PMID: 22215463 PMCID: PMC3346870 DOI: 10.1007/s12471-011-0233-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Desmin-related myopathy (DRM) is an autosomally inherited skeletal and cardiac myopathy, mainly caused by dominant mutations in the desmin gene (DES). We describe new families carrying the p.S13F or p.N342D DES mutations, the cardiac phenotype of all carriers, and the founder effects. Methods We collected the clinical details of all carriers of p.S13F or p.N342D. The founder effects were studied using genealogy and haplotype analysis. Results We identified three new index patients carrying the p.S13F mutation and two new families carrying the p.N342D mutation. In total, we summarised the clinical details of 39 p.S13F carriers (eight index patients) and of 21 p.N342D carriers (three index patients). The cardiac phenotype of p.S13F carriers is fully penetrant and severe, characterised by cardiac conduction disease and cardiomyopathy, often with right ventricular involvement. Although muscle weakness is a prominent and presenting symptom in p.N342D carriers, their cardiac phenotype is similar to that of p.S13F carriers. The founder effects of p.S13F and p.N342D were demonstrated by genealogy and haplotype analysis. Conclusion DRM may occur as an apparently isolated cardiological disorder. The cardiac phenotypes of the DES founder mutations p.S13F and p.N342D are characterised by cardiac conduction disease and cardiomyopathy, often with right ventricular involvement. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s12471-011-0233-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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- K Y van Spaendonck-Zwarts
- Department of Genetics, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, PO Box 30001, 9700 RB, Groningen, the Netherlands,
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Brodehl A, Hedde PN, Dieding M, Fatima A, Walhorn V, Gayda S, Šarić T, Klauke B, Gummert J, Anselmetti D, Heilemann M, Nienhaus GU, Milting H. Dual color photoactivation localization microscopy of cardiomyopathy-associated desmin mutants. J Biol Chem 2012; 287:16047-57. [PMID: 22403400 PMCID: PMC3346104 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m111.313841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2011] [Revised: 02/27/2012] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Mutations in the DES gene coding for the intermediate filament protein desmin may cause skeletal and cardiac myopathies, which are frequently characterized by cytoplasmic aggregates of desmin and associated proteins at the cellular level. By atomic force microscopy, we demonstrated filament formation defects of desmin mutants, associated with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. To understand the pathogenesis of this disease, it is essential to analyze desmin filament structures under conditions in which both healthy and mutant desmin are expressed at equimolar levels mimicking an in vivo situation. Here, we applied dual color photoactivation localization microscopy using photoactivatable fluorescent proteins genetically fused to desmin and characterized the heterozygous status in living cells lacking endogenous desmin. In addition, we applied fluorescence resonance energy transfer to unravel short distance structural patterns of desmin mutants in filaments. For the first time, we present consistent high resolution data on the structural effects of five heterozygous desmin mutations on filament formation in vitro and in living cells. Our results may contribute to the molecular understanding of the pathological filament formation defects of heterozygous DES mutations in cardiomyopathies.
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- Andreas Brodehl
- From the E. & H. Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research & Development and
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- the Institute of Applied Physics and Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- the Experimental Biophysics and Applied Nanoscience, Faculty of Physics and Bielefeld Institute for Biophysics and Nanoscience (BINAS), Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- the Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- the Experimental Biophysics and Applied Nanoscience, Faculty of Physics and Bielefeld Institute for Biophysics and Nanoscience (BINAS), Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- the Institute of Applied Physics and Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- the Institute for Neurophysiology, Medical Center, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany
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- From the E. & H. Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research & Development and
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- the Clinic of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Ruhr-University Bochum, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
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- the Experimental Biophysics and Applied Nanoscience, Faculty of Physics and Bielefeld Institute for Biophysics and Nanoscience (BINAS), Bielefeld University, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany
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- the Department of Biotechnology & Biophysics, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, 97074 Würzburg, Germany, and
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- the Institute of Applied Physics and Center for Functional Nanostructures, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany
- the Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801
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- From the E. & H. Klessmann Institute for Cardiovascular Research & Development and
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Hong D, Wang Z, Zhang W, Xi J, Lu J, Luan X, Yuan Y. A series of Chinese patients with desminopathy associated with six novel and one reported mutations in the desmin gene. Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol 2011; 37:257-70. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2010.01112.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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van Spaendonck-Zwarts KY, van Hessem L, Jongbloed JDH, de Walle HEK, Capetanaki Y, van der Kooi AJ, van Langen IM, van den Berg MP, van Tintelen JP. Desmin-related myopathy. Clin Genet 2010; 80:354-66. [PMID: 20718792 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2010.01512.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Desmin-related myopathy (DRM) is an autosomally inherited skeletal and cardiac myopathy, mainly caused by dominant mutations in the desmin gene (DES). We provide (i) a literature review on DRM, including clinical manifestations, inheritance, molecular genetics, myopathology and management and (ii) a meta-analysis of reported DES mutation carriers, focusing on their clinical characteristics and potential genotype-phenotype correlations. Meta-analysis: DES mutation carriers (n = 159) with 40 different mutations were included. Neurological signs were present in 74% and cardiological signs in 74% of carriers (both neurological and cardiological signs in 49%, isolated neurological signs in 22%, and isolated cardiological signs in 22%). More than 70% of carriers exhibited myopathy or muscular weakness, with normal creatine kinase levels present in one third of them. Up to 50% of carriers had cardiomyopathy and around 60% had cardiac conduction disease or arrhythmias, with atrioventricular block as an important hallmark. Symptoms generally started during the 30s; a quarter of carriers died at a mean age of 49 years. Sudden cardiac death occurred in two patients with a pacemaker, suggesting a ventricular tachyarrhythmia as cause of death. The majority of DES mutations were missense mutations, mostly located in the 2B domain. Mutations in the 2B domain were predominant in patients with an isolated neurological phenotype, whereas head and tail domain mutations were predominant in patients with an isolated cardiological phenotype.
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- K Y van Spaendonck-Zwarts
- Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
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van Tintelen JP, Van Gelder IC, Asimaki A, Suurmeijer AJ, Wiesfeld AC, Jongbloed JD, van den Wijngaard A, Kuks JB, van Spaendonck-Zwarts KY, Notermans N, Boven L, van den Heuvel F, Veenstra-Knol HE, Saffitz JE, Hofstra RM, van den Berg MP. Severe cardiac phenotype with right ventricular predominance in a large cohort of patients with a single missense mutation in the DES gene. Heart Rhythm 2009; 6:1574-83. [DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2009] [Accepted: 07/23/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Disease mutations in the “head” domain of the extra-sarcomeric protein desmin distinctly alter its assembly and network-forming properties. J Mol Med (Berl) 2009; 87:1207-19. [DOI: 10.1007/s00109-009-0521-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2009] [Revised: 08/08/2009] [Accepted: 08/11/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Wong ESP, Tan JMM, Soong WE, Hussein K, Nukina N, Dawson VL, Dawson TM, Cuervo AM, Lim KL. Autophagy-mediated clearance of aggresomes is not a universal phenomenon. Hum Mol Genet 2008; 17:2570-82. [PMID: 18502787 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddn157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Aggresomes are juxtanuclear inclusion bodies that have been proposed to act as staging grounds for the disposal of protein aggregates via the autophagic route. To examine whether the composition of an aggresome influences its clearance by autophagy, we ectopically expressed a variety of aggregation-prone proteins in cultured cells to generate aggresomes that differ in their protein content. We found that whereas aggresomes generated in cells expressing mutant huntingtin or mutant tau, or co-expressing synphilin-1 and alpha-synuclein, are amenable to clearance by autophagy, those produced in AIMP2 (p38)- or mutant desmin-expressing cells are apparently resistant to autophagic clearance. Notably, AIMP2 (p38)- and desmin-positive inclusions fail to recruit key components of the autophagic/lysosomal system. However, by altering the composition of inclusions, 'autophagy-resistant' aggresomes could be rendered 'autophagy-susceptible'. Taken together, our results demonstrate that not all aggresomes are efficiently primed for autophagic clearance and highlight a certain degree of selectivity for the supposedly non-discriminative pathway.
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- Esther S P Wong
- Neurodegeneration Research Laboratory, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore
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