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Calcium homeostasis and ultrastructural studies in a patient with limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Michael Cullen

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Abstract

There is increasing evidence that γ-sarcoglycan is absent and other sarcoglycans are reduced in patients with the limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 2C (LGMD2C) form of severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy. In the present investigation, we combined microspectrofluorimetry and electron microscopy techniques to investigate the physiological function and the ultrastructure of control and LGMD2C myotubes. Results obtained from Ca2+ measurements showed that the resting level of the cytosolic free calcium ([Ca2+](i)) in control myotubes was 73 ± 3.4 nmol/l (mean ± SE, n = 35) and in LGMD2C myotubes was 69 ± 4 nmol/l (n = 44). Carbachol (CCh, 10 μmol/l) induced a 335 ± 10 nmol/l (n = 8) rise in [Ca2+](i) in control myotubes and 531.9 ± 32 nmol/l (n = 23) in LGMD2C myotubes. Similarly, elevations of [Ca2+](i) by 35 mmol/l K+ were 324 ± 32 nmol/l (n = 8) in control myotubes and 442.8 ± 24 nmol/l (n = 22) in LGMD2C myotubes. Caffeine (10 mmol/l) activated similar [Ca2+](i) peaks in control and LGMD2C myotubes but induced a biphasic response in LGMD2C in four out of 12 myotubes and only a monophasic response in control myotubes. The ultrastructural results showed that the plasma membrane was abnormally indented and convoluted in both the LGMD2C biopsy and the LGMD2C cultured myotubes. It is suggested that the reduction in components of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex results in the instability and an increase in the surface area of the plasma membrane, which may result in a higher population of Ca2+ channels in the LGMD2C myotubes.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Hassoni AA, Cullen MJ

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Year: 1999

Volume: 25

Issue: 3

Pages: 244-253

Print publication date: 01/06/1999

ISSN (print): 0305-1846

ISSN (electronic): 1365-2990

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2990.1999.00169.x

DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2990.1999.00169.x

PubMed id: 10417666


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