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Muscle – DMD, BMD Flashcards

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What is botox?

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toxin produced by bacterium Clostridium botulinum

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How does botox lead to botulism?

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botox inhibits fusion of synaptic vesicles with presynaptic membrane

inhibits ACh release by axon terminals, which leads to botulism

no endplate potential, therefore no muscle contraction – state of relaxation

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What does botulism cause?

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muscular paralysis
respiratory failure
death

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What happens when people get botox?

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freeze muscles in face – remove wrinkles and emotional responses

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What are Duchenne (DMD) and Becker (BMD) Muscular Dystrophies characterized by?

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  • weakening of skeletal muscles
  • progressive wasting of muscles
  • mental retardation
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What type of disease is DMD and BMD?

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genetic diseases caused by mutations in dystrophin gene located on X chromosome

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What is dystrophin protein?

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cytoplasmic protein that plays role in linking actin cytoskeleton with basal lamina

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How is DMD and BMD inherited?

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from carrier mother

  • ¼ chance of having son with DMD
  • ¼ chance of having carrier daughter
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What are symptoms of DMD and BMD?

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  • mostly affects boys
  • first signs appear around ages 3-5, especially people with DMD
  • waddling walk
  • walking on tiptoes
  • curvature of spine
  • enlarged calf muscles – pseudohypertrophy
  • progression of muscle weakness
  • use of wheelchair between age of 8-12 (people with DMD)
  • limited fine movements
  • development of scoliosis (curvature of spine)
  • breathing difficulties
  • death occurs before age of 20 from heart failure or pneumonia
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Where is the dystrophin gene?

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on short arm of X chromosome

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What does the dystrophin gene produce?

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large dystrophin protein

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Where is the actin binding domain of the dystrophin protien?

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NH2 terminal

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What are the regions of the dystrophin protein?

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  • 4 hinge regions
  • 24 rod-like domains
  • cysteine-rich domain
  • actin binding domain
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What happens if there is mutation in dystrophin gene?

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results in stop codon – truncated protein

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What types of mutation will result in stop codon in dystrophin gene?

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any mutation (exon deletion, base substitution, etc.)

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What happens to truncated dystrophin proteins?

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don’t live long in the cell because it will be targeted by degradation enzymes

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What happens if a mutation in the dystrophin gene does not result in stop codon?

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synthesis of a shorter, but still functional, dystrophin protein

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What does the dystroglycan-containing complex (dystrophin-associated protein complex) link?

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links actin cytoskeleton to basal lamina

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How does the dystroglycan-containing complex link actin cytoskeleton to basal lamina?

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  • dystrophin binds to actin cytoskeleton via its NH2 terminal
  • dystrophin binds to 𝛽-dystroglycan via cysteine-rich domain
  • 𝛽-dystroglycan binds to 𝛼-dystroglycan (extracellular)
  • laminin-2 (component of basal lamina) binds to 𝛼-dystroglycan
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When are muscle fibers more prone to injury and tears?

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when performing tasks requiring muscle contraction

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Describe the link between tears, contraction-induced injuries, and dystrophin.

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  • dystrophin is structural protein that makes sure there’s a cross-talk link between inside and outside of cell
  • in DMD, no dystrophin – severed link between inside and outside of cell
  • when muscle fibre twitches and contracts, muscle fibre eventually breaks down and dies
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Describe the dystrophin protein and its fate in normal individuals.

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functional dystrophin protein

  • binds to actin via NH2 terminal
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Describe the dystrophin protein and its fate in individuals with DMD.

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truncated dystrophin protein

targeted by degradation enzymes

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Describe the dystrophin protein and its fate in individuals with BMD.

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partially functional dystrophin protein

  • can still bind actin cytoskeleton (maintain link between basal lamina and actin cytoskeleton)
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What does lack of dystrophin (DMD) result in?
infiltration of connective and adipose tissues
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Where are connective tissues?
intercalated between muscle cells and muscle fascicles
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What happens as a result of infiltration of connective and adipose tissues (due to DMD)?
clusters of nuclei of macrophages that have invaded tissue (to digest debris of muscle fibres) have degenerated
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What is pseudohypertrophy? (ie. of large calf)
from outside, we are led to believe there are more muscle fibres, or they’re much larger but, actually due to lots of connective tissue and adipose tissue that invades muscles – not ‘real’ hypertrophy
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What is a mdx mouse?
mouse that carries spontaneous mutation in exon 23 of dystrophin gene – used as model for DMD
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What is kyphosis in mdx mouse?
more prominent curvature of spine
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How does kyphosis occur?
- muscles have weakened - less muscle fibres – degenerate - cannot maintain normal spinal shape
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What are the 3 main therapeutic strategies for DMD?
- cell therapy - pharmacological therapy - gene therapy
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What does pharmacological therapy due?
aim to reduce inflammation
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What is cell therapy?
myoblast or stem cell transplantation into skeletal muscles
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Is cell therapy successful?
not very successful in the past
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How is cell therapy done?
skeletal muscles are large, therefore transplantation must be done in many sites
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What is the downside of cell therapy?
generates inflammation due to transplantation done in many sites
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What is gene therapy?
delivery of DNA encoding dystrophin
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What is the challenge of delivering DNA encoding dystrophin in gene therapy?
- gene is too long to deliver - need to find ways to chop gene and express its most significant sequences to end up with some kind of functional protein
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What are the 2 methods used in gene therapy?
- exon skipping | - CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)
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What does pharmacological therapy rely on?
relies on use of arginine butyrate
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What does arginine butyrate do?
inhibits histone acetylases (which modulate rate of gene transcription) → increases gene transcription
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What is utrophin?
homolog of dystrophin also expressed in skeletal muscle fibres
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Describe pharmacological therapy in mdx mouse. State the results.
treat mdx with arginine butyrate and look at histology of muscle much less connective tissue in mdx mouse
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What is microdystrophin?
possible therapeutic strategy for DMD
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In dystrophin-associated protein complex in mdx muscle expressing microdystrophin:
- deleted rod domain from R4 to R23 → left with NT, hinge 1, R1, R2, hinge 3, R24, hinge 4 - when DNA sequence encoding microdystrophin was made, some things were able to be restored
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What is the effect of microdystrophin in mdx mouse?
microdystrophin gene delivery using AAVs restores dystrophin expression in mdx mouse
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What do adeno-associated virus vectors (AAVs) do?
packages microdystrophin in order for it to reach the appropriate sites
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What does microdystrophin delivery do in mdx mouse?
corrects dystrophic pathology in mdx mouse no full-sized fields of macrophage nuclei at motor level, improvements were marginal
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What occurs during exon skipping?
- skip sequence where stop codon appears | - use antisense oligonucleotides to mask/block DNA sequence where stop codon appears
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What are antisense oligonucleotides?
sequences of nucleotides that are somewhere around 20 nucleotides
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Exon Skipping
- skip sequence where stop codon appears | - use antisense oligonucleotides to mask/block DNA sequence where stop codon appears
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Multi-Exon Skipping Approach
- use multiple antisense oligonucleotides to skip exons
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What occurs during multi-exon skipping?
use multiple antisense oligonucleotides to skip exons
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What is a limitation of exon skipping?
skipping in critical regions ie. mutation in exon, which encodes portion of cysteine-rich domain (green) - without cysteine-rich domain, dystrophin cannot bind to beta dystroglycan - non-functional protein
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What is an out of frame mutation?
mutation that disrupts 3-letter reading pattern, creating words that don’t make sense and leading to unreadable sentence
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What is the general idea of exon skipping?
converts unreadable sentence to sentence that makes sense

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