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Cellular and molecular alterations to muscles and neuromuscular synapses in a mouse model of MEGF10-related myopathy. MEGF10 相关肌病小鼠模型中肌肉和神经肌肉突触的细胞和分子改变。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-05-17 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00342-6
Devin Juros, Mary Flordelys Avila, Robert Louis Hastings, Ariane Pendragon, Liam Wilson, Jeremy Kay, Gregorio Valdez
{"title":"Cellular and molecular alterations to muscles and neuromuscular synapses in a mouse model of MEGF10-related myopathy.","authors":"Devin Juros, Mary Flordelys Avila, Robert Louis Hastings, Ariane Pendragon, Liam Wilson, Jeremy Kay, Gregorio Valdez","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00342-6","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13395-024-00342-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Loss-of-function mutations in MEGF10 lead to a rare and understudied neuromuscular disorder known as MEGF10-related myopathy. There are no treatments for the progressive respiratory distress, motor impairment, and structural abnormalities in muscles caused by the loss of MEGF10 function. In this study, we deployed cellular and molecular assays to obtain additional insights about MEGF10-related myopathy in juvenile, young adult, and middle-aged Megf10 knockout (KO) mice. We found fewer muscle fibers in juvenile and adult Megf10 KO mice, supporting published studies that MEGF10 regulates myogenesis by affecting satellite cell differentiation. Interestingly, muscle fibers do not exhibit morphological hallmarks of atrophy in either young adult or middle-aged Megf10 KO mice. We next examined the neuromuscular junction (NMJ), in which MEGF10 has been shown to concentrate postnatally, using light and electron microscopy. We found early and progressive degenerative features at the NMJs of Megf10 KO mice that include increased postsynaptic fragmentation and presynaptic regions not apposed by postsynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. We also found perisynaptic Schwann cells intruding into the NMJ synaptic cleft. These findings strongly suggest that the NMJ is a site of postnatal pathology in MEGF10-related myopathy. In support of these cellular observations, RNA-seq analysis revealed genes and pathways associated with myogenesis, skeletal muscle health, and NMJ stability dysregulated in Megf10 KO mice compared to wild-type mice. Altogether, these data provide new and valuable cellular and molecular insights into MEGF10-related myopathy.</p>","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11100254/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140957686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Comparative in vivo characterization of newly discovered myotropic adeno-associated vectors 新发现的肌腺相关载体的体内特性比较
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00341-7
Jacqueline Ji, Elise Lefebvre, Jocelyn Laporte
{"title":"Comparative in vivo characterization of newly discovered myotropic adeno-associated vectors","authors":"Jacqueline Ji, Elise Lefebvre, Jocelyn Laporte","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00341-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00341-7","url":null,"abstract":"Adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy is a promising strategy to treat muscle diseases. However, this strategy is currently confronted with challenges, including a lack of transduction efficiency across the entire muscular system and toxicity resulting from off-target tissue effects. Recently, novel myotropic AAVs named MyoAAVs and AAVMYOs have been discovered using a directed evolution approach, all separately demonstrating enhanced muscle transduction efficiency and liver de-targeting effects. However, these newly discovered AAV variants have not yet been compared. In this study, we performed a comparative analysis of these various AAV9-derived vectors under the same experimental conditions following different injection time points in two distinct mouse strains. We highlight differences in transduction efficiency between AAV9, AAVMYO, MyoAAV2A and MyoAAV4A that depend on age at injection, doses and mouse genetic background. In addition, specific AAV serotypes appeared more potent to transduce skeletal muscles including diaphragm and/or to de-target heart or liver. Our study provides guidance for researchers aiming to establish proof-of-concept approaches for preventive or curative perspectives in mouse models, to ultimately lead to future clinical trials for muscle disorders.","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140839283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pannexin 1 dysregulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and its exacerbation of dystrophic features in mdx mice 杜氏肌营养不良症中 Pannexin 1 的失调及其对 mdx 小鼠肌营养不良特征的加剧作用
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00340-8
Emily Freeman, S. Langlois, M. F. Leyba, Tarek Ammar, Zacharie Léger, Hugh J. McMillan, Jean-Marc Renaud, Bernard J. Jasmin, Kyle N. Cowan
{"title":"Pannexin 1 dysregulation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy and its exacerbation of dystrophic features in mdx mice","authors":"Emily Freeman, S. Langlois, M. F. Leyba, Tarek Ammar, Zacharie Léger, Hugh J. McMillan, Jean-Marc Renaud, Bernard J. Jasmin, Kyle N. Cowan","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00340-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00340-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140651963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dimorphic effect of TFE3 in determining mitochondrial and lysosomal content in muscle following denervation TFE3 在决定肌肉去神经后线粒体和溶酶体含量方面的二态效应
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-04-20 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00339-1
Ashley N. Oliveira, Jonathan M. Memme, Jenna Wong, David A. Hood
{"title":"Dimorphic effect of TFE3 in determining mitochondrial and lysosomal content in muscle following denervation","authors":"Ashley N. Oliveira, Jonathan M. Memme, Jenna Wong, David A. Hood","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00339-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00339-1","url":null,"abstract":"Muscle atrophy is a common consequence of the loss of innervation and is accompanied by mitochondrial dysfunction. Mitophagy is the adaptive process through which damaged mitochondria are removed via the lysosomes, which are regulated in part by the transcription factor TFE3. The role of lysosomes and TFE3 are poorly understood in muscle atrophy, and the effect of biological sex is widely underreported. Wild-type (WT) mice, along with mice lacking TFE3 (KO), a transcriptional regulator of lysosomal and autophagy-related genes, were subjected to unilateral sciatic nerve denervation for up to 7 days, while the contralateral limb was sham-operated and served as an internal control. A subset of animals was treated with colchicine to capture mitophagy flux. WT females exhibited elevated oxygen consumption rates during active respiratory states compared to males, however this was blunted in the absence of TFE3. Females exhibited higher mitophagy flux rates and greater lysosomal content basally compared to males that was independent of TFE3 expression. Following denervation, female mice exhibited less muscle atrophy compared to male counterparts. Intriguingly, this sex-dependent muscle sparing was lost in the absence of TFE3. Denervation resulted in 45% and 27% losses of mitochondrial content in WT and KO males respectively, however females were completely protected against this decline. Decreases in mitochondrial function were more severe in WT females compared to males following denervation, as ROS emission was 2.4-fold higher. In response to denervation, LC3-II mitophagy flux was reduced by 44% in females, likely contributing to the maintenance of mitochondrial content and elevated ROS emission, however this response was dysregulated in the absence of TFE3. While both males and females exhibited increased lysosomal content following denervation, this response was augmented in females in a TFE3-dependent manner. Females have higher lysosomal content and mitophagy flux basally compared to males, likely contributing to the improved mitochondrial phenotype. Denervation-induced mitochondrial adaptations were sexually dimorphic, as females preferentially preserve content at the expense of function, while males display a tendency to maintain mitochondrial function. Our data illustrate that TFE3 is vital for the sex-dependent differences in mitochondrial function, and in determining the denervation-induced atrophy phenotype.","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140623723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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IL-33-ST2 signaling in fibro-adipogenic progenitors alleviates immobilization-induced muscle atrophy in mice. 纤维脂肪生成祖细胞中的 IL-33-ST2 信号可减轻固定诱发的小鼠肌肉萎缩。
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00338-2
Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Masaki Yoda, Osahiko Tsuji, Keisuke Horiuchi, Kota Watanabe, Masaya Nakamura
{"title":"IL-33-ST2 signaling in fibro-adipogenic progenitors alleviates immobilization-induced muscle atrophy in mice.","authors":"Yoshiyuki Takahashi, Masaki Yoda, Osahiko Tsuji, Keisuke Horiuchi, Kota Watanabe, Masaya Nakamura","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00338-2","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13395-024-00338-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The regenerative and adaptive capacity of skeletal muscles reduces with age, leading to severe disability and frailty in the elderly. Therefore, development of effective therapeutic interventions for muscle wasting is important both medically and socioeconomically. In the present study, we aimed to elucidate the potential contribution of fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs), which are mesenchymal stem cells in skeletal muscles, to immobilization-induced muscle atrophy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Young (2-3 months), adult (12-14 months), and aged (20-22 months) mice were used for analysis. Muscle atrophy was induced by immobilizing the hind limbs with a steel wire. FAPs were isolated from the hind limbs on days 0, 3, and 14 after immobilization for transcriptome analysis. The expression of ST2 and IL-33 in FAPs was evaluated by flow cytometry and immunostaining, respectively. To examine the role of IL-33-ST2 signaling in vivo, we intraperitoneally administered recombinant IL-33 or soluble ST2 (sST2) twice a week throughout the 2-week immobilization period. After 2-week immobilization, the tibialis anterior muscles were harvested and the cross-sectional area of muscle fibers was evaluated.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The number of FAPs increased with the progression of muscle atrophy after immobilization in all age-groups. Transcriptome analysis of FAPs collected before and after immobilization revealed that Il33 and Il1rl1 transcripts, which encode the IL-33 receptor ST2, were transiently induced in young mice and, to a lesser extent, in aged mice. The number of FAPs positive for ST2 increased after immobilization in young mice. The number of ST2-positive FAPs also increased after immobilization in aged mice, but the difference from the baseline was not statistically significant. Immunostaining for IL-33 in the muscle sections revealed a significant increase in the number of FAPs expressing IL-33 after immobilization. Administration of recombinant IL-33 suppressed immobilization-induced muscle atrophy in aged mice but not in young mice.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our data reveal a previously unknown protective role of IL-33-ST2 signaling against immobilization-induced muscle atrophy in FAPs and suggest that IL-33-ST2 signaling is a potential new therapeutic target for alleviating disuse muscle atrophy, particularly in older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10983726/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140336820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Motor neurons and endothelial cells additively promote development and fusion of human iPSC-derived skeletal myocytes 运动神经元和内皮细胞相加促进人类 iPSC 衍生骨骼肌细胞的发育和融合
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00336-4
Suradip Das, Melanie C. Hilman, Feikun Yang, Foteini Mourkioti, Wenli Yang, D. Kacy Cullen
{"title":"Motor neurons and endothelial cells additively promote development and fusion of human iPSC-derived skeletal myocytes","authors":"Suradip Das, Melanie C. Hilman, Feikun Yang, Foteini Mourkioti, Wenli Yang, D. Kacy Cullen","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00336-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00336-4","url":null,"abstract":"Neurovascular cells have wide-ranging implications on skeletal muscle biology regulating myogenesis, maturation, and regeneration. Although several in vitro studies have investigated how motor neurons and endothelial cells interact with skeletal myocytes independently, there is limited knowledge about the combined effect of neural and vascular cells on muscle maturation and development. Here, we report a triculture system comprising human-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived skeletal myocytes, human iPSC-derived motor neurons, and primary human endothelial cells maintained under controlled media conditions. Briefly, iPSCs were differentiated to generate skeletal muscle progenitor cells (SMPCs). These SMPCs were seeded at a density of 5 × 104 cells/well in 12-well plates and allowed to differentiate for 7 days before adding iPSC-derived motor neurons at a concentration of 0.5 × 104 cells/well. The neuromuscular coculture was maintained for another 7 days in coculture media before addition of primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) also at 0.5 × 104 cells/well. The triculture was maintained for another 7 days in triculture media comprising equal portions of muscle differentiation media, coculture media, and vascular media. Extensive morphological, genetic, and molecular characterization was performed to understand the combined and individual effects of neural and vascular cells on skeletal muscle maturation. We observed that motor neurons independently promoted myofiber fusion, upregulated neuromuscular junction genes, and maintained a molecular niche supportive of muscle maturation. Endothelial cells independently did not support myofiber fusion and downregulated expression of LRP4 but did promote expression of type II specific myosin isoforms. However, neurovascular cells in combination exhibited additive increases in myofiber fusion and length, enhanced production of Agrin, along with upregulation of several key genes like MUSK, RAPSYN, DOK-7, and SLC2A4. Interestingly, more divergent effects were observed in expression of genes like MYH8, MYH1, MYH2, MYH4, and LRP4 and secretion of key molecular factors like amphiregulin and IGFBP-4. Neurovascular cells when cultured in combination with skeletal myocytes promoted myocyte fusion with concomitant increase in expression of various neuromuscular genes. This triculture system may be used to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of the neurovascular niche on skeletal muscle biology and pathophysiology.","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140056820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Metabolic signatures and potential biomarkers of sarcopenia in suburb-dwelling older Chinese: based on untargeted GC–MS and LC–MS 郊区中国老年人肌肉疏松症的代谢特征和潜在生物标志物:基于非靶向气相色谱-质谱联用仪和液相色谱-质谱联用仪
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00337-3
Peipei Han, Chunhua Yuan, Xiaoyu Chen, Yuanqing Hu, Xiaodan Hu, Zhangtao Xu, Qi Guo
{"title":"Metabolic signatures and potential biomarkers of sarcopenia in suburb-dwelling older Chinese: based on untargeted GC–MS and LC–MS","authors":"Peipei Han, Chunhua Yuan, Xiaoyu Chen, Yuanqing Hu, Xiaodan Hu, Zhangtao Xu, Qi Guo","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00337-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00337-3","url":null,"abstract":"Untargeted metabolomics can be used to expand our understanding of the pathogenesis of sarcopenia. However, the metabolic signatures of sarcopenia patients have not been thoroughly investigated. Herein, we explored metabolites associated with sarcopenia by untargeted gas chromatography (GC)/liquid chromatography (LC)–mass spectrometry (MS) and identified possible diagnostic markers. Forty-eight elderly subjects with sarcopenia were age and sex matched with 48 elderly subjects without sarcopenia. We first used untargeted GC/LC–MS to analyze the plasma of these participants and then combined it with a large number of multivariate statistical analyses to analyze the data. Finally, based on a multidimensional analysis of the metabolites, the most critical metabolites were considered to be biomarkers of sarcopenia. According to variable importance in the project (VIP > 1) and the p-value of t-test (p < 0.05), a total of 55 metabolites by GC–MS and 85 metabolites by LC–MS were identified between sarcopenia subjects and normal controls, and these were mostly lipids and lipid-like molecules. Among the top 20 metabolites, seven phosphatidylcholines, seven lysophosphatidylcholines (LysoPCs), phosphatidylinositol, sphingomyelin, palmitamide, L-2-amino-3-oxobutanoic acid, and palmitic acid were downregulated in the sarcopenia group; only ethylamine was upregulated. Among that, three metabolites of LysoPC(17:0), L-2-amino-3-oxobutanoic acid, and palmitic acid showed very good prediction capacity with AUCs of 0.887 (95% CI = 0.817–0.957), 0.836 (95% CI = 0.751–0.921), and 0.805 (95% CI = 0.717–0.893), respectively. These findings show that metabonomic analysis has great potential to be applied to sarcopenia. The identified metabolites could be potential biomarkers and could be used to study sarcopenia pathomechanisms.","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140056713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A knock down strategy for rapid, generic, and versatile modelling of muscular dystrophies in 3D-tissue-engineered-skeletal muscle 三维组织工程骨骼肌中肌肉萎缩症快速、通用和多功能建模的基因敲除策略
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-024-00335-5
Stijn L. M. in ‘t Groen, Marnix Franken, Theresa Bock, Marcus Krüger, Jessica C. de Greef, W. W. M. Pim Pijnappel
{"title":"A knock down strategy for rapid, generic, and versatile modelling of muscular dystrophies in 3D-tissue-engineered-skeletal muscle","authors":"Stijn L. M. in ‘t Groen, Marnix Franken, Theresa Bock, Marcus Krüger, Jessica C. de Greef, W. W. M. Pim Pijnappel","doi":"10.1186/s13395-024-00335-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-024-00335-5","url":null,"abstract":"Human iPSC-derived 3D-tissue-engineered-skeletal muscles (3D-TESMs) offer advanced technology for disease modelling. However, due to the inherent genetic heterogeneity among human individuals, it is often difficult to distinguish disease-related readouts from random variability. The generation of genetically matched isogenic controls using gene editing can reduce variability, but the generation of isogenic hiPSC-derived 3D-TESMs can take up to 6 months, thereby reducing throughput. Here, by combining 3D-TESM and shRNA technologies, we developed a disease modelling strategy to induce distinct genetic deficiencies in a single hiPSC-derived myogenic progenitor cell line within 1 week. As proof of principle, we recapitulated disease-associated pathology of Duchenne muscular dystrophy and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2A caused by loss of function of DMD and CAPN3, respectively. shRNA-mediated knock down of DMD or CAPN3 induced a loss of contractile function, disruption of tissue architecture, and disease-specific proteomes. Pathology in DMD-deficient 3D-TESMs was partially rescued by a candidate gene therapy treatment using micro-dystrophin, with similar efficacy compared to animal models. These results show that isogenic shRNA-based humanized 3D-TESM models provide a fast, cheap, and efficient tool to model muscular dystrophies and are useful for the preclinical evaluation of novel therapies.","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139927746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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N-terminal titin fragment: a non-invasive, pharmacodynamic biomarker for microdystrophin efficacy N 端 titin 片段:微囊营养素疗效的非侵入性药效生物标志物
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-023-00334-y
Jessica F. Boehler, Kristy J. Brown, Valeria Ricotti, Carl A. Morris
{"title":"N-terminal titin fragment: a non-invasive, pharmacodynamic biomarker for microdystrophin efficacy","authors":"Jessica F. Boehler, Kristy J. Brown, Valeria Ricotti, Carl A. Morris","doi":"10.1186/s13395-023-00334-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-023-00334-y","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple clinical trials to assess the efficacy of AAV-directed gene transfer in participants with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are ongoing. The success of these trials currently relies on standard functional outcome measures that may exhibit variability within and between participants, rendering their use as sole measures of drug efficacy challenging. Given this, supportive objective biomarkers may be useful in enhancing observed clinical results. Creatine kinase (CK) is traditionally used as a diagnostic biomarker of DMD, but its potential as a robust pharmacodynamic (PD) biomarker is difficult due to the wide variability seen within the same participant over time. Thus, there is a need for the discovery and validation of novel PD biomarkers to further support and bolster traditional outcome measures of efficacy in DMD. Potential PD biomarkers in DMD participant urine were examined using a proteomic approach on the Somalogic platform. Findings were confirmed in both mdx mice and Golden Retriever muscular dystrophy (GRMD) dog plasma samples. Changes in the N-terminal fragment of titin, a well-known, previously characterized biomarker of DMD, were correlated with the expression of microdystrophin protein in mice, dogs, and humans. Further, titin levels were sensitive to lower levels of expressed microdystrophin when compared to CK. The measurement of objective PD biomarkers such as titin may provide additional confidence in the assessment of the mechanism of action and efficacy in gene therapy clinical trials of DMD. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03368742.","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139476765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The MuSK-BMP pathway maintains myofiber size in slow muscle through regulation of Akt-mTOR signaling MuSK-BMP通路通过调节Akt-mTOR信号维持慢肌肌纤维的大小
IF 4.9 2区 医学
Skeletal Muscle Pub Date : 2024-01-03 DOI: 10.1186/s13395-023-00329-9
Diego Jaime, Lauren A. Fish, Laura A. Madigan, Chengjie Xi, Giorgia Piccoli, Madison D. Ewing, Bert Blaauw, Justin R. Fallon
{"title":"The MuSK-BMP pathway maintains myofiber size in slow muscle through regulation of Akt-mTOR signaling","authors":"Diego Jaime, Lauren A. Fish, Laura A. Madigan, Chengjie Xi, Giorgia Piccoli, Madison D. Ewing, Bert Blaauw, Justin R. Fallon","doi":"10.1186/s13395-023-00329-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13395-023-00329-9","url":null,"abstract":"Myofiber size regulation is critical in health, disease, and aging. MuSK (muscle-specific kinase) is a BMP (bone morphogenetic protein) co-receptor that promotes and shapes BMP signaling. MuSK is expressed at all neuromuscular junctions and is also present extrasynaptically in the mouse soleus, whose predominantly oxidative fiber composition is akin to that of human muscle. To investigate the role of the MuSK-BMP pathway in vivo, we generated mice lacking the BMP-binding MuSK Ig3 domain. These ∆Ig3-MuSK mice are viable and fertile with innervation levels comparable to wild type. In 3-month-old mice, myofibers are smaller in the slow soleus, but not in the fast tibialis anterior (TA). Transcriptomic analysis revealed soleus-selective decreases in RNA metabolism and protein synthesis pathways as well as dysregulation of IGF1-Akt-mTOR pathway components. Biochemical analysis showed that Akt-mTOR signaling is reduced in soleus but not TA. We propose that the MuSK-BMP pathway acts extrasynaptically to maintain myofiber size in slow muscle by promoting protein synthetic pathways including IGF1-Akt-mTOR signaling. These results reveal a novel mechanism for regulating myofiber size in slow muscle and introduce the MuSK-BMP pathway as a target for promoting muscle growth and combatting atrophy.","PeriodicalId":21747,"journal":{"name":"Skeletal Muscle","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139082278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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