Disruption of muscle architecture and myocardial degeneration in mice lacking desmin

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Disruption of muscle architecture and myocardial degeneration in mice lacking desmin

DJ Milner, G Weitzer, D Tran, A Bradley and Y Capetanaki
Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

Desmin, the muscle specific intermediate filament (IF) protein encoded by a single gene, is expressed in all muscle tissues. In mature striated muscle, desmin IFs surround the Z-discs, interlink them together and integrate the contractile apparatus with the sarcolemma and the nucleus. To investigate the function of desmin in all three muscle types in vivo, we generated desmin null mice through homologous recombination. Surprisingly, desmin null mice are viable and fertile. However, these mice demonstrated a multisystem disorder involving cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle. Histological and electron microscopic analysis in both heart and skeletal muscle tissues revealed severe disruption of muscle architecture and degeneration. Structural abnormalities included loss of lateral alignment of myofibrils and abnormal mitochondrial organization. The consequences of these abnormalities were most severe in the heart, which exhibited progressive degeneration and necrosis of the myocardium accompanied by extensive calcification. Abnormalities of smooth muscle included hypoplasia and degeneration. The present data demonstrate the essential role of desmin in the maintenance of myofibril, myofiber, and whole muscle tissue structural and functional integrity, and show that the absence of desmin leads to muscle degeneration.
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