title: Dystrophic skeletal muscle fibers display alterations at the level of calcium microdomains.
abstract: The spatiotemporal properties of the Ca(2+)-release process in skeletal muscle fibers from normal and mdx fibers were determined using the confocal-spot detection technique. The Ca(2+) indicator OGB-5N was used to record action potential-evoked fluorescence signals at consecutive locations separated by 200 nm along multiple sarcomeres of FDB fibers loaded with 10- and 30-mM EGTA. Three-dimensional reconstructions of fluorescence transients demonstrated the existence of microdomains of increased fluorescence around the Ca(2+)-release sites in both mouse strains. The Ca(2+) microdomains in mdx fibers were regularly spaced along the fiber axis, displaying a distribution similar to that seen in normal fibers. Nevertheless, both preparations differed in that in 10-mM EGTA Ca(2+) microdomains had smaller amplitudes and were wider in mdx fibers than in controls. In addition, Ca(2+)-dependent fluorescence transients recorded at selected locations within the sarcomere of mdx muscle fibers were not only smaller, but also slower than their counterparts in normal fibers. Notably, differences in the spatial features of the Ca(2+) microdomains recorded in mdx and normal fibers, but not in the amplitude and kinetics of the Ca(2+) transients, were eliminated in 30-mM EGTA. Our results consistently demonstrate that Ca(2+)-release flux calculated from release sites in mdx fibers is uniformly impaired with respect to those normal fibers. The Ca(2+)-release reduction is consistent with that previously measured using global detection techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Marino
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: DiFranco
authors.forename: Christopher E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: Joana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Capote
authors.forename: Julio L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Vergara
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism*; D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000494:pharmacology; D004533:Egtazic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D007202:Indicators and Reagents / Q000032:analysis; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018101:Mice, Inbred mdx; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal; D018485:Muscle Fibers, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D020388:Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012518:Sarcomeres / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002614:Chelating Agents; D007202:Indicators and Reagents; D004533:Egtazic Acid; D002118:Calcium
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