title: Mutation types and aging differently affect revertant fiber expansion in dystrophic mdx and mdx52 mice.
abstract: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), one of the most common and lethal genetic disorders, and the mdx mouse myopathies are caused by a lack of dystrophin protein. These dystrophic muscles contain sporadic clusters of dystrophin-expressing revertant fibers (RFs), as detected by immunohistochemistry. RFs are known to arise from muscle precursor cells with spontaneous exon skipping (alternative splicing) and clonally expand in size with increasing age through the process of muscle degeneration/regeneration. The expansion of revertant clusters is thought to represent the cumulative history of muscle regeneration and proliferation of such precursor cells. However, the precise mechanisms by which RFs arise and expand are poorly understood. Here, to test the effects of mutation types and aging on RF expansion and muscle regeneration, we examined the number of RFs in mdx mice (containing a nonsense mutation in exon 23) and mdx52 mice (containing deletion mutation of exon 52) with the same C57BL/6 background at 2, 6, 12, and 18months of age. Mdx mice displayed a significantly higher number of RFs compared to mdx52 mice in all age groups, suggesting that revertant fiber expansion largely depends on the type of mutation and/or location in the gene. A significant increase in the expression and clustering levels of RFs was found beginning at 6months of age in mdx mice compared with mdx52 mice. In contrast to the significant expansion of RFs with increasing age, the number of centrally nucleated fibers and embryonic myosin heavy chain-positive fibers (indicative of cumulative and current muscle regeneration, respectively) decreased with age in both mouse strains. These results suggest that mutation types and aging differently affect revertant fiber expansion in mdx and mdx52 mice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Genetics, University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Echigoya
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Merryl
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rodrigues
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nagata
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tanihata
authors.forename: Ashkan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nozohourmehrabad
authors.forename: Dharminder
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Panesar
authors.forename: Bailey
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Miskew
authors.forename: Yoshitsugu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aoki
authors.forename: Toshifumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokota
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D017398:Alternative Splicing / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D018389:Codon, Nonsense / Q000235:genetics; D005091:Exons / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D018101:Mice, Inbred mdx; D008817:Mice, Mutant Strains; D018485:Muscle Fibers, Skeletal / Q000378:metabolism*; D020388:Muscular Dystrophy, Duchenne / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D009154:Mutation / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D018389:Codon, Nonsense
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