title: Dynamic responses of the glutathione system to acute oxidative stress in dystrophic mouse (mdx) muscles.
abstract: The precise mechanisms underlying skeletal muscle damage in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) remain ill-defined. Functional ischemia during muscle activation, with subsequent reperfusion during rest, has been documented. Therefore, one possibility is the presence of increased oxidative stress. We applied a model of acute hindlimb ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) in mdx mice (genetic homolog of DMD) to evaluate dynamic in vivo responses of dystrophic muscles to this form of oxidative stress. Before the application of I/R, mdx muscles showed: 1) decreased levels of total glutathione (GSH) with an increased oxidized (GSSG)-to-reduced (GSH) glutathione ratio; 2) greater activity of the GSH-metabolizing enzymes glutathione peroxidase (GPx) and glutathione reductase; and 3) lower activity levels of NADP-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) and aconitase, two metabolic enzymes that are sensitive to inactivation by oxidative stress and also implicated in GSH regeneration. Interestingly, nondystrophic muscles subjected to I/R exhibited similar changes in total glutathione, GSSG/GSH, GPx, ICDH, and aconitase. In contrast, all of the above remained stable in mdx muscles subjected to I/R. Taken together, these results suggest that mdx muscles are chronically subjected to increased oxidative stress, leading to adaptive changes that attempt to protect (although only in part) the dystrophic muscles from acute I/R-induced oxidative stress. In addition, mdx muscles show significant impairment of the redox-sensitive metabolic enzymes ICDH and aconitase, which may further contribute to contractile dysfunction in dystrophic muscles.
authors.affiliation: Meakins-Christie Laboratories, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Roy W R
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Dudley
authors.forename: Maya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Khairallah
authors.forename: Shawn
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohammed
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lands
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Des Rosiers
authors.forename: Basil J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Petrof
mesh_terms: D000154:Aconitate Hydratase / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D016189:Dystrophin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D005978:Glutathione / Q000378:metabolism*; D005980:Glutathione Reductase / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D018101:Mice, Inbred mdx; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D009336:Necrosis; D018384:Oxidative Stress / Q000502:physiology*; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D016189:Dystrophin; D005980:Glutathione Reductase; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; C042301:isocitrate dehydrogenase kinase; D000154:Aconitate Hydratase; D005978:Glutathione