The sarcoglycan complex in the six autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophies

Human Molecular Genetics
M VainzofM Zatz

Abstract

To enhance our understanding of the autosomal recessive limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD), patients from six genetically distinct forms (LGMD2A to LGMD2F) were studied with antibodies directed against four sarcoglycan subunits (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, delta-SG), dystrophin, beta-dystroglycan (beta-DG) and merosin. All patients with LGMD2A and 2B had a mild clinical course while those with a primary sarcoglycan mutation (LGMD2C to 2F) had a range of clinical severity. Dystrophin and merosin immunofluorescence pattern was positive in patients with all six AR LGMDs. The majority of patients with a severe Duchenne-like phenotype presented total absence of the SG complex. However, some exceptions were found in 13q linked patients, indicating that the presence of a certain labelling for components of the SG may not be prognostic for a milder phenotype. The observation that the primary absence of alpha-SG results in the total absence of beta- and delta-SG but not of gamma-SG suggests that the alpha-, beta- and delta-subunits of sarcoglycan may be more closely associated. A secondary reduction in dystrophin amount was seen in patients with primary sarcoglycan mutations, which was most marked in patients with primary beta-, gamma- an...Continue Reading

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