Journal
NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages 115-120Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2010.11.010
Keywords
ISCU; Mitochondria; Muscle regeneration; Succinate dehydrogenase deficiency
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- Swedish Research Council [07122]
- Selander Foundation
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Myopathy with exercise intolerance and deficiency of iron sulphur cluster proteins is caused by an intronic IVS5+382 G > C mutation in ISCU, the gene encoding the iron sulphur cluster assembly protein (IscU). The mutation causes alternative splicing resulting in a truncated protein and severely reduced levels of IscU protein in muscle tissue. Disease manifestations include muscle fatigability, dyspnoea, cardiac palpitations and episodic myoglobinuria. Muscle tissue of these patients demonstrates marked histochemical succinate dehydrogenase deficiency and accumulation of iron in muscle fibres, which are morphological hallmarks of the disease. A biopsy specimen from a patient, two months after a severe attack of rhabdomyolysis, revealed regenerating muscle with normal succinate dehydrogenase activity and only minor iron accumulation, whereas another biopsy obtained nine years after the episode showed the typical hallmarks of the disease. The apparent explanation for the normal succinate dehydrogenase activity during regeneration was a markedly increased level of IscU protein in regenerating muscle tissue and an increase in normally spliced ISCU transcripts in the patient. The results have implications for diagnosis of the disease based on muscle biopsy findings and support the concept that an increase of normally spliced ISCU by RNA modulating therapy may be a therapeutic possibility for these patients. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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