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- Title
Nemaline myopathy caused by absence of α‐skeletal muscle actin.
- Authors
Kristen J. Nowak; Caroline A. Sewry; Carmen Navarro; Waney Squier; Cristina Reina; Jose R. Ricoy; Sandeep S. Jayawant; Anne‐Marie Childs; J. Angus Dobbie; Richard E. Appleton; Roger C. Mountford; Kendall R. Walker; Sophie Clement; Annie Barois; Francesco Muntoni; Norma B. Romero; Nigel G. Laing
- Abstract
To investigate seven congenital myopathy patients from six families: one French Gypsy, one Spanish Gypsy, four British Pakistanis, and one British Indian. Three patients required mechanical ventilation from birth, five died before 22 months, one is ventilator‐dependent, but one, at 30 months, is sitting with minimal support. All parents were unaffected.The α‐skeletal muscle actin gene (ACTA1) was sequenced. Available muscle biopsies were investigated by standard histological and electron microscopic techniques. The expression of various proteins was determined by immunohistochemistry, western blotting, or both.Three homozygous ACTA1 null mutations were identified: p.Arg41X in the French patient, p.Tyr364fsX in the Spanish patient, and p.Asp181fsX10 in all five British patients. An absence of α‐skeletal muscle actin protein but presence of α‐cardiac actin was shown in all muscle biopsies examined, with more α‐cardiac actin in the biopsy from the child with the greatest muscle function. Muscle biopsies from all patients exhibited nemaline bodies whereas three also contained zebra bodies.The seven patients have recessive nemaline myopathy caused by absence of α‐skeletal muscle actin. The level of retention of α‐cardiac actin, the skeletal muscle fetal actin isoform, may determine α‐skeletal muscle actin disease severity. This has implications for possible future therapy. Ann Neurol 2006
- Subjects
MUSCLE diseases; ACTIN; ARTIFICIAL respiration; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY
- Publication
Annals of Neurology, 2007, Vol 61, Issue 2, p175
- ISSN
0364-5134
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ana.21035