Journal
TRAFFIC
Volume 8, Issue 10, Pages 1424-1439Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0854.2007.00622.x
Keywords
congenital muscular dystrophy; dystrophin; Golgi complex; mdx; microtubules; muscular dystrophy; neuromuscular junction; regeneration; skeletal muscle
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- NICHD NIH HHS [U54 HD047175] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [P01 NS 04678, P01 NS046788] Funding Source: Medline
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Muscular dystrophies are a diverse group of severe degenerative muscle diseases. Recent interest in the role of the Golgi complex (GC) in muscle disease has been piqued by findings that several dystrophies result from mutations in putative Golgi-resident glycosyltransferases. Given this new role of the Golgi in sarcolemmal stability, we hypothesized that abnormal Golgi distribution, regulation and/or function may constitute part of the pathology of other dystrophies, where the primary defect is independent of Golgi function. Thus, we investigated GC organization in the dystrophin-deficient muscles of mdx mice, a mouse model for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We report aberrant organization of the synaptic and extrasynaptic GC in skeletal muscles of mdx mice. The GC is mislocalized and improperly concentrated at the surface and core of mdx myofibers. Golgi complex localization is disrupted after the onset of necrosis and normal redistribution is impaired during regeneration of mdx muscle fibers. Disruption of the microtubule cytoskeleton may account in part for aberrant GC localization in mdx myofibers. Golgi complex distribution is restored to wild type and microtubule cytoskeleton organization is significantly improved by recombinant adeno-associated virus 6-mediated expression of Delta R4-R23/Delta CT microdystrophin showing a novel mode of microdystrophin functionality. In summary, GC distribution abnormalities are a novel component of mdx skeletal muscle pathology rescued by microdystrophin expression.
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