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- Title
A centronuclear myopathy--dynamin 2 mutation impairs autophagy in mice.
- Authors
Durieux, Anne-Cécile; Vassilopoulos, Stéphane; Lainé, Jeanne; Fraysse, Bodvaël; Briñas, Laura; Prudhon, Bernard; Castells, Josiane; Freyssenet, Damien; Bonne, Gisèle; Guicheney, Pascale; Bitoun, Marc
- Abstract
Dynamin 2 (Dnm2) is involved in endocytosis and intracellular membrane trafficking through its function in vesicle formation from distinct membrane compartments. Heterozygous (HTZ) mutations in the DNM2 gene cause dominant centronuclear myopathy or Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy. We generated a knock-in Dnm2R465W mouse model expressing the most frequent human mutation and recently reported that HTZ mice progressively developed a myopathy. We investigated here the cause of neonatal lethality occurring in homozygous (HMZ) mice. We show that HMZ mice present at birth with a reduced body weight, hypoglycemia, increased liver glycogen content and hepatomegaly, in agreement with a defect in neonatal autophagy. In vitro studies performed in HMZ embryonic fibroblasts point out to a decrease in the autophagy flux prior to degradation at the autolysosome. We show that starved HMZ cells have a higher number of immature autophagy-related structures probably due to a defect of acidification. Our results highlight the role of Dnm2 in the cross talk between endosomal and autophagic pathways and evidence a new role of Dnm2-dependent membrane trafficking in autophagy which may be relevant in DNM2-related human diseases.
- Publication
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark), 2012, Vol 13, Issue 6, p869
- ISSN
1600-0854
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1600-0854.2012.01348.x