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miR-31 modulates dystrophin expression: new implications for Duchenne muscular dystrophy therapy 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Cacchiarelli D Incitti T Martone J Cesana M Cazzella V Santini T Sthandier O Bozzoni I 《EMBO reports》2011,12(2):136-141
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)--which is caused by mutations in the dystrophin gene-is one of the most severe myopathies. Among therapeutic strategies, exon skipping allows the rescue of dystrophin synthesis through the production of a shorter but functional messenger RNA. Here, we report the identification of a microRNA--miR-31--that represses dystrophin expression by targeting its 3' untranslated region. In human DMD myoblasts treated with exon skipping, we demonstrate that miR-31 inhibition increases dystrophin rescue. These results indicate that interfering with miR-31 activity can provide an ameliorating strategy for those DMD therapies that are aimed at efficiently recovering dystrophin synthesis. 相似文献
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Dystrophin, its interactions with other proteins, and implications for muscular dystrophy 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Ervasti JM 《Biochimica et biophysica acta》2007,1772(2):108-117
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Sabela Atencia‐Fernandez Robert E. Shiel Carmel T. Mooney Catherine M. Nolan 《Animal genetics》2015,46(2):175-184
An X‐linked muscular dystrophy, with deficiency of full‐length dystrophin and expression of a low molecular weight dystrophin‐related protein, has been described in Japanese Spitz dogs. The aim of this study was to identify the causative mutation and develop a specific test to identify affected cases and carrier animals. Gene expression studies in skeletal muscle of an affected animal indicated aberrant expression of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (dystrophin) gene and an anomaly in intron 19 of the gene. Genome‐walking experiments revealed an inversion that interrupts two genes on the X chromosome, the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene and the retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator gene. All clinically affected dogs and obligate carriers that were tested had the mutant chromosome, and it is concluded that the inversion is the causative mutation for X‐linked muscular dystrophy in the Japanese Spitz breed. A PCR assay that amplifies mutant and wild‐type alleles was developed and proved capable of identifying affected and carrier individuals. Unexpectedly, a 7‐year‐old male animal, which had not previously come to clinical attention, was shown to possess the mutant allele and to have a relatively mild form of the disease. This observation indicates phenotypic heterogeneity in Japanese Spitz muscular dystrophy, a feature described previously in humans and Golden Retrievers. With the availability of a simple, fast and accurate test for Japanese Spitz muscular dystrophy, detection of carrier animals and selected breeding should help eliminate the mutation from the breed. 相似文献
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Uchida Y Maeda Y Kimura E Yamashita S Nishida Y Arima T Hirano T Uyama E Mita S Uchino M 《The journal of gene medicine》2005,7(8):1010-1022
BACKGROUND: The helper-dependent adenovirus (HDAd) vector is less immunogenic and has a larger cloning capacity of up to 37 kb enough to carry the full-length dystrophin cDNA. However, high and long-term expression of dystrophin transduced to mature muscle still remains difficult. One of the main reasons for this is that the expression of the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) is very low in mature muscle. METHODS: We have constructed two different HDAd vectors. One contains the LacZ and the murine full-length dystrophin expression cassette (HDAdLacZ-dys), and the other is a new, improved vector containing the CAR and the dystrophin expression cassette (HDAdCAR-dys). RESULTS: We initially demonstrated high dystrophin expression and prevention of the dystrophic pathology in mdx muscle injected during the neonatal phase with HDAdLacZ-dys. Furthermore, we demonstrated that repeated injections of HDAdCAR-dys into mature muscle led to approximately nine times greater dystrophin-positive fibers in number than a single injection, thereby recovering the expression of dystrophin-associated proteins. This data has also shown that HDAdCAR-dys enabled administration of adenovirus (Ad) vector to the host with pre-existing immunity to the same serotype of Ad. CONCLUSIONS: Repetitive injections of the HDAd vector containing the CAR and the dystrophin expression cassette could improve the efficiency of subsequent dystrophin gene transfer to mature mdx muscle. This result suggests that our new HDAd vector will provide a novel gene therapy strategy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, raising the prospects for gene therapy of other hereditary myopathies. 相似文献
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Intraarterial injection of muscle-derived CD34(+)Sca-1(+) stem cells restores dystrophin in mdx mice 总被引:22,自引:0,他引:22
Torrente Y Tremblay JP Pisati F Belicchi M Rossi B Sironi M Fortunato F El Fahime M D'Angelo MG Caron NJ Constantin G Paulin D Scarlato G Bresolin N 《The Journal of cell biology》2001,152(2):335-348
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杜氏肌营养不良症(Duchenne muscular dystrophy,DMD)属于X连锁隐性遗传病.DMD基因是人类最大基因,突变机制复杂.随着分子生物学的研究进展,对DMD的基因和其编码的抗肌萎缩蛋白(dystrophin)及抗肌萎缩蛋白相关蛋白(utrophin)的认识不断深入.本文就DMD的病理学特点,Dys基因结构、表达、功能,DMD突变及其相关检测技术,DMD实验动物模型及相关治疗的研究进展进行综述. 相似文献
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Narinder Janghra Jennifer E. Morgan Caroline A. Sewry Francis X. Wilson Kay E. Davies Francesco Muntoni Jonathon Tinsley 《PloS one》2016,11(3)
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe and currently incurable progressive neuromuscular condition, caused by mutations in the DMD gene that result in the inability to produce dystrophin. Lack of dystrophin leads to loss of muscle fibres and a reduction in muscle mass and function. There is evidence from dystrophin-deficient mouse models that increasing levels of utrophin at the muscle fibre sarcolemma by genetic or pharmacological means significantly reduces the muscular dystrophy pathology. In order to determine the efficacy of utrophin modulators in clinical trials, it is necessary to accurately measure utrophin levels and other biomarkers on a fibre by fibre basis within a biopsy section. Our aim was to develop robust and reproducible staining and imaging protocols to quantify sarcolemmal utrophin levels, sarcolemmal dystrophin complex members and numbers of regenerating fibres within a biopsy section. We quantified sarcolemmal utrophin in mature and regenerating fibres and the percentage of regenerating muscle fibres, in muscle biopsies from Duchenne, the milder Becker muscular dystrophy and controls. Fluorescent immunostaining followed by image analysis was performed to quantify utrophin intensity and β-dystrogylcan and ɣ –sarcoglycan intensity at the sarcolemma. Antibodies to fetal and developmental myosins were used to identify regenerating muscle fibres allowing the accurate calculation of percentage regeneration fibres in the biopsy. Our results indicate that muscle biopsies from Becker muscular dystrophy patients have fewer numbers of regenerating fibres and reduced utrophin intensity compared to muscle biopsies from Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients. Of particular interest, we show for the first time that the percentage of regenerating muscle fibres within the muscle biopsy correlate with the clinical severity of Becker and Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients from whom the biopsy was taken. The ongoing development of these tools to quantify sarcolemmal utrophin and muscle regeneration in muscle biopsies will be invaluable for assessing utrophin modulator activity in future clinical trials. 相似文献
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Gregorevic P Allen JM Minami E Blankinship MJ Haraguchi M Meuse L Finn E Adams ME Froehner SC Murry CE Chamberlain JS 《Nature medicine》2006,12(7):787-789
Mice carrying mutations in both the dystrophin and utrophin genes die prematurely as a consequence of severe muscular dystrophy. Here, we show that intravascular administration of recombinant adeno-associated viral (rAAV) vectors carrying a microdystrophin gene restores expression of dystrophin in the respiratory, cardiac and limb musculature of these mice, considerably reducing skeletal muscle pathology and extending lifespan. These findings suggest rAAV vector-mediated systemic gene transfer may be useful for treatment of serious neuromuscular disorders such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 相似文献
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Vita Peri Boris Ajdukovic Paul Holland Balwant S. Tuana 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》1994,130(1):57-65
Dystrophin is a high molecular weight protein present at low abundance in skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle and in trace amounts in brain. In skeletal muscle, dystrophin is uniformly distributed along the inner surface of the plasma membrane. Biochemical fractionation studies have shown that all detectable skeletal muscle dystrophin is tightly associated with a complex of wheat germ agglutinin (WGA)-binding and concanavalin A (Con A) binding sarcolemmal glycoproteins. Absence of dystrophin is the primary biochemical defect in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and leads to segmental necrosis of their skeletal myofibers. Although present in similar amounts in normal cardiac and skeletal muscle, the absence of dystrophin from cardiac muscle has less severe effects on the survival of cardiac cells. We have therefore examined whether there are differences in the properties of cardiac and skeletal dystrophin. We report that in contrast to skeletal muscle, cardiac dystrophin is distributed between distinct pools: a soluble cytoplasmic pool, a membrane-bound pool not associated with WGA-binding glycoproteins and a membrane-bound pool associated with WGA-binding glycoproteins. Cardiac dystrophin was not associated with any Con A binding glycoproteins. Immunohistochemical localization studies in isolated ventricular myocytes reveal a distinct punctate staining pattern for dystrophin, approximating to the level of the transverse tubule/Z-line and contrasting with the uniform sarcolemmal staining reported for skeletal muscle fibers. The distinct properties of cardiac dystrophin suggest unique roles for this protein in cardiac versus skeletal muscle function.Abbreviations Dys
Dystrophin
- T-tubule
Transverse tubule
- SDS-PAGE
Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate-Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis
- WGA
Wheat Germ Agglutinin
- Con A
Concanavalin A
- DHP
Dihydropyridine receptor
- FITC
Fluorescein Isothiocyanate Conjugate
- NAG
N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine
- NP-40
NONIDET P-40
- PBS
Phosphate-Buffered Saline
- TBST
Tris Buffered Saline-Tween 相似文献
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Nebulin and dystrophin are two high-molecular-mass skeletal muscle proteins that have both been associated with the defective gene in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, although the function of neither protein is known. Other high-molecular-mass, calmodulin-binding proteins have recently been implicated in regulating calcium release from skeletal muscle. Western blots of human skeletal muscle biopsy samples were probed with biotinylated calmodulin; nebulin was identified as a prominent high-molecular-mass calmodulin-binding protein but dystrophin did not bind detectable amounts of biotinylated calmodulin. Dystrophin was absent in a Duchenne muscle biopsy. 相似文献
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Creatine kinase, cell membrane and Duchenne muscular dystrophy 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
In 1958 Professor Setsuro Ebashi found that serum creatine kinase activity is increased in patients suffering from various muscular dystrophies, especially Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). He and others proposed that creatine kinase passes through the cell membrane as it is released from DMD muscle fibers.Since then, it has been found that dystrophin and dystrophin-associated proteins are connected to several other components, including the basal lamina and subsarcolemmal cytoskeletal networks on the cell membrane, while dystrophin anchors these dystrophin-associated proteins to the actin filaments inside the muscle cell. In DMD muscle, dystrophin has been found to be absent and dystroglycans and sarcoglycans decreased. However, how creatine kinase molecules can pass through the DMD muscle cell membrane still remains unanswered.On the basis of recent findings on the structure of the protein layers which sandwich the lipid bilayer of muscle cell membranes, this essay stresses the importance of these lipid bilayers in protecting creatine kinase release from protoplasma in normal muscle. It further indicates the possibility that the absence of dystrophin in DMD muscle during muscle contraction may result in temporal damage to the lipid bilayer. 相似文献
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetically transmitted disease characterized by progressive muscle weakness and usually leads to death. DMD results from the absence, deficiency or dysfunction of the protein dystrophin. Analysis of protein data bases, including homology alignments and domain recognition patterns, have located highly significant correlations between dystrophin and other calcium regulating proteins. In particular, a major portion of the dystrophin sequence has been found to contain repeating units of approximately 100 amino acid residues. These repeating units were found to exhibit significant homology to troponin I. Troponin I has been found to bind to the calcium binding proteins calmodulin and troponin C. The regions of highest homology were characterized by patterns of high localization of charged amino acids and thus could represent a possible calmodulin or troponin C surface accessible binding site. Since subcellular localization studies have indicated that dystrophin is associated with the triadic junction, these findings imply that dystrophin could be involved in controlling intracellular calcium homeostasis.Special issue dedicated to Dr. Lawrence Austin. 相似文献
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Toh Zhi Yon Charles May Thandar Aung-Htut Gavin Pinniger Abbie M. Adams Sudarsan Krishnaswarmy Brenda L. Wong Sue Fletcher Steve D. Wilton 《PloS one》2016,11(1)
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy severity depends upon the nature and location of the DMD gene lesion and generally correlates with the dystrophin open reading frame. However, there are striking exceptions where an in-frame genomic deletion leads to severe pathology or protein-truncating mutations (nonsense or frame-shifting indels) manifest as mild disease. Exceptions to the dystrophin reading frame rule are usually resolved after molecular diagnosis on muscle RNA. We report a moderate/severe Becker muscular dystrophy patient with an in-frame genomic deletion of DMD exon 5. This mutation has been reported by others as resulting in Duchenne or Intermediate muscular dystrophy, and the loss of this in-frame exon in one patient led to multiple splicing events, including omission of exon 6, that disrupts the open reading frame and is consistent with a severe phenotype. The patient described has a deletion of dystrophin exon 5 that does not compromise recognition of exon 6, and although the deletion does not disrupt the reading frame, his clinical presentation is more severe than would be expected for classical Becker muscular dystrophy. We suggest that the dystrophin isoform lacking the actin-binding sequence encoded by exon 5 is compromised, reflected by the phenotype resulting from induction of this dystrophin isoform in mouse muscle in vivo. Hence, exon skipping to address DMD-causing mutations within DMD exon 5 may not yield an isoform that confers marked clinical benefit. Additional studies will be required to determine whether multi-exon skipping strategies could yield more functional dystrophin isoforms, since some BMD patients with larger in-frame deletions in this region have been reported with mild phenotypes. 相似文献
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Carrie S. Shemanko Jasbinder S. Sanghera Rachel E. Milner Steven Pelech Marek Michalak 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》1995,152(1):63-70
Dystrophin is the 427-kDa protein product of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy gene (DMD). The function of this protein remains to be elucidated. We have recently reported that dystrophin is phosphorylated,in vivo, in rat skeletal muscle primary cell culture (RE Milner, JL Busaan, CFB Holmes, JH Wang, M Michalak (1993) J Biol Chem 268: 21901–21905). This observation suggests that protein phosphorylation may have some role in modulating the function of dystrophin or its interaction with membrane associate dystroglycan. We report here that the carboxyl-terminal of dystrophin is phosphorylated by the MAP kinase p44mpk (mitogen-activated protein kinase), from the sea star oocytes and by soluble extracts of rabbit skeletal muscle. Importantly we showed that native dystrophin in isolated sarcolemmal vesicles is phosphorylated by sea star p44mpk. Partial purification and immunological analysis show that a mammalian kinase related to p44mpk is present in the skeletal muscle extracts and that it contributes to phosphorylation of the carboxyl-terminal of dystrophin. This kinase phosphorylates dystrophin on a threonine residue(s). We conclude that phosphorylation of dystrophin may play an important role in the function of this cytoskeletal protein.Abbreviations MAP kinase
mitogen-activated protein kinase
- DMD
Duchenne muscular dystrophy
- GST
Glutathione S-transferase
- PAGE
polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis
- EDTA
ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
- EGTA
ethylene glycol bis(-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N,N-tetraacetic acid
- MOPS
4-morpholinepropanesulfonic acid 相似文献
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Radley HG De Luca A Lynch GS Grounds MD 《The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology》2007,39(3):469-477
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a lethal X-linked muscle disease resulting from a defect in the muscle membrane protein dystrophin. The absence of dystrophin leads to muscle membrane fragility, muscle death (necrosis) and eventual replacement of skeletal muscle by fat and fibrous connective tissue. Extensive muscle wasting and respiratory failure results in premature death often by the early 20s. This short review evaluates drug and nutritional interventions designed to reduce the severity of muscular dystrophy, while awaiting the outcome of research into therapies to correct the fundamental gene defect. Combinations of dietary supplementation with amino-acids such as creatine, specific anti-inflammatory drugs and perhaps drugs that target ion channels might have immediate realistic clinical benefits although rigorous research is required to determine optimal combinations of such interventions. 相似文献
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Molecular medicine is a new research field underlain by achievements of the Human Genome Project. The review considers the contribution of the Laboratory of Prenatal Diagnostics of the Ott Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology to the development of molecular medicine in Russia. Special emphasis is placed on molecular diagnostics, predictive medicine, and gene therapy. The lab obtained priority results in devising and promoting methods of molecular diagnostics of the most common severe hereditary disorders such as cystic fibrosis, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, hemophilia A, and fragile X syndrome. Owing to the Russian program Human Genome, St. Petersburg researchers laid the foundations for theoretical and applied predictive medicine, which is aimed at identifying and analyzing the genes associated with predisposition to high-incidence multifactorial disorders. Experiments with mdx mice providing a model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy were carried out to select the optimal way of delivering a transgene (cDNA of the dystrophin gene) contained in various constructs for the purpose of gene therapy. 相似文献
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Nami Masubuchi Yuichi Shidoh Shunzo Kondo Jun Takatoh Kazunori Hanaoka 《Experimental Animals》2013,62(3):211-217
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive progressive muscle
degenerative disorder that causes dilated cardiomyopathy in the second decade of life in
affected males. Dystrophin, the gene responsible for DMD, encodes
full-length dystrophin and various short dystrophin isoforms. In the mouse heart,
full-length dystrophin Dp427 and a short dystrophin isoform, Dp71, are expressed. In this
study, we intended to clarify the functions of these dystrophin isoforms in DMD-related
cardiomyopathy. We used two strains of mice: mdx mice, in which Dp427 was
absent but Dp71 was present, and DMD-null mice, in which both were
absent. By immunohistochemical staining and density-gradient centrifugation, we found that
Dp427 was located in the cardiac sarcolemma and also at the T-tubules, whereas Dp71 was
specifically located at the T-tubules. In order to determine whether T tubule-associated
Dp71 was involved in DMD-related cardiac disruption, we compared the cardiac phenotypes
between DMD-null mice and mdx mice. Both
DMD-null mice and mdx mice exhibited severe necrosis,
which was followed by fibrosis in cardiac muscle. However, we could not detect a
significant difference in myocardial fibrosis between mdx mice and
DMD-null mice. Based on the present results, we have shown that cardiac
myopathy is caused predominantly by a deficiency of full-length dystrophin Dp427. 相似文献