A decline in PABPN1 induces progressive muscle weakness in oculopharyngeal muscle dystrophy and in muscle aging

Seyed Yahya Anvar, Yotam Raz, Nisha Verway, Barbara van der Sluijs, Andrea Venema, Jelle J Goeman, John Vissing, Silvère M van der Maarel, Peter A C 't Hoen, Baziel G M van Engelen, Vered Raz

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Abstract

Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) is caused by trinucleotide repeat expansion mutations in Poly(A) binding protein 1 (PABPN1). PABPN1 is a regulator of mRNA stability and is ubiquitously expressed. Here we investigated how symptoms in OPMD initiate only at midlife and why a subset of skeletal muscles is predominantly affected. Genome-wide RNA expression profiles from Vastus lateralis muscles human carriers of expanded-PABPN1 at pre-symptomatic and symptomatic stages were compared with healthy controls. Major expression changes were found to be associated with age rather than with expression of expanded-PABPN1, instead transcriptomes of OPMD and elderly muscles were significantly similar (P
Original languageEnglish
JournalAging
Volume5
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)412-26
Number of pages15
ISSN1945-4589
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2013

Keywords

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Aging
  • Animals
  • Case-Control Studies
  • Cell Aging
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Humans
  • Mice
  • Middle Aged
  • Muscle Weakness
  • Muscle, Skeletal
  • Muscular Dystrophy, Oculopharyngeal
  • Poly(A)-Binding Protein I
  • RNA, Messenger
  • Transcriptome
  • Young Adult

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