Journal
NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 373-379Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2014.02.003
Keywords
Myopathy; HMERF; Titin; Protein aggregates; Mutation
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- Swedish Research Council [07122, 8266]
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Hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure is a rare disease with muscle weakness and respiratory failure as early symptoms. Muscle pathology is characterized by the presence of multiple cytoplasmic bodies and other protein aggregates in muscle fibers. The disease is associated with mutations in the titin gene (TTN). All patients harbor mutations located in exon 343 in the TTN gene that codes for the fibronectin III domain 119 (FN3 119) in the 10th motif of the 11-element motif A-band super-repeat. We investigated how such disease-causing mutations affect the biochemical behavior of this titin domain. All five disease-causing amino acid changes analyzed by us (p.P30068R, p.C30071R, p.W30088R, p.W30088C and p.P30091L) resulted in impaired FN3 119 domain solubility. In contrast, amino acid changes associated with common SNPs (p.V30076I, p.R30107C and p.S30125F) did not have this effect. In silica analyses further support the notion that disease-causing mutations impair proper folding of the FN3 119 domain. The results suggest that hereditary myopathy with early respiratory failure is caused by defective protein folding. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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