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Co‐Opting MBNL‐Dependent Alternative Splicing Cassette Exons to Control Gene Therapy in Myotonic Dystrophy

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is a highly variable, multisystemic genetic disorder caused by a CTG repeat expansion in the 3′ untranslated region of DMPK. Toxicity is exerted by repeat‐containing DMPK transcripts that sequester muscleblind‐like (MBNL) proteins and lead to deleterious yet predictable changes in alternative splicing.
Samuel T. Carrell, Ellie M. Carrell, Ryan Giovenco, Beverly L. Davidson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dupuytren's Contracture Cosegregation with Limb-Girdle Muscle Dystrophy

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2013
Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies (LGMDs) is a heterogeneous group of muscular dystrophies that mostly affect the pelvic and shoulder girdle muscle groups.
Baiba Lace, Inna Inashkina, Ieva Micule, Inta Vasiljeva, Maruta Solvita Naudina, Jurgis Strautmanis, Janis Stavusis, Eriks Jankevics   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel Transcriptional Slippage Mechanism Rescues Dystrophin Expression from a DMD Frameshift Variant

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Pathogenic DMD variants usually follow the reading‐frame rule: out‐of‐frame changes cause Duchenne muscular dystrophy, whereas in‐frame ones produce Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD). We report a 23‐year‐old man with BMD‐like weakness, calf hypertrophy, elevated creatine kinase, and dilated cardiomyopathy.
Hiroya Naruse, Jun Mitsui, Akatsuki Kubota, So Okubo, Shuichiro Mitsuchi, Kensho Sumi, Shuichi Tanifuji, Shogo Komaki, Asuka Kitamura, Meiko Maeda, Daiki Yashita, Atsushi Sudo, Takashi Matsukawa, Masashi Hamada, Wataru Satake, Shoji Tsuji, Tatsushi Toda   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Degree of Cajal-Retzius cell mislocalisation correlates with the severity of structural brain defects in mouse models of dystroglycanopathy [PDF]

, 2016
The secondary dystroglycanopathies are characterized by the hypoglycosylation of alpha dystroglycan, and are associated with mutations in at least 18 genes that act on the glycosylation of this cell surface receptor rather than the Dag1 gene itself.
Booler, H, Brown, S C, Hopkinson, M, Williams, J   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Adaptive Machine Learning Framework for Optimizing the Affinity Purification of Adeno‐Associated Viral Vectors

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adeno‐associated viral (AAV) vectors for gene therapy are becoming integral to modern medicine, providing therapeutic options for diseases once deemed incurable. Currently, viral vector purification is a critical bottleneck in the gene therapy industry, impacting product efficacy and safety as well as accessibility and cost to patients ...
Kelvin P. Idanwekhai, Shriarjun Shastry, Morgan R. Hurst, Arianna Minzoni, Eduardo Barbieri, Luke Remmler, Eugene N. Muratov, Michael A. Daniele, Stefano Menegatti, Alexander Tropsha   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Value of muscle magnetic resonance imaging in the differential diagnosis of muscular dystrophies related to the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 2019
Background Dystrophin-glycoprotein complex (DGC)-related muscular dystrophies may present similar clinical and pathological features as well as undetectable mutations thus being sometimes difficult to distinguish.
Zhiying Xie, Zhihao Xie, Meng Yu, Yiming Zheng, Chengyue Sun, Yilin Liu, Chen Ling, Ying Zhu, Wei Zhang, Jiangxi Xiao, Zhaoxia Wang, Yun Yuan   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why we age

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
wiley   +1 more source

Thrombospondin-4 deletion does not exacerbate muscular dystrophy in β-sarcoglycan-deficient and laminin α2 chain-deficient mice

Scientific Reports
Muscular dystrophy is a group of genetic disorders that lead to muscle wasting and loss of muscle function. Identifying genetic modifiers that alleviate symptoms or enhance the severity of a primary disease helps to understand mechanisms behind disease ...
Paula Zarén, Kinga I. Gawlik
doaj   +1 more source

Special Issue—Towards Understanding the Mechanisms and Curing of Muscular Dystrophy Diseases

Molecules, 2015
Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of inherited diseases with different molecular basss, but sharing similar clinical features and dystrophic changes.
Leonidas A. Phylactou
doaj   +1 more source

Optimization of CEST MRI Reporter Protein Design Using Cation‐Pi Networks

Chemistry – A European Journal, EarlyView.
A novel engineering approach can produce reporter proteins for cell and viral therapy tracking with unique magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signatures, detectable with chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST). We discover how cation‐π interactions between amino acid groups can help us fine‐tune magnetic resonance properties for noninvasive ...
David E. Korenchan, Ethan J. French, Emerenziana Runco, Chetan B. Dhakan, Jinwu Yan, Hiroshi Nakashima, Michael T. McMahon, Assaf A. Gilad, Christian T. Farrar   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source