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Immortalized human myotonic dystrophy muscle cell lines to assess therapeutic compounds
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| Author | Arandel, Ludovic Espinoza, Micaela Polay Matloka, Magdalena Bazinet, Audrey Damily De Dea Diniz Naouar, Naïra Rau, Frédérique Jollet, Arnaud Edom-Vovard, Frédérique Mamchaoui, Kamel Tarnopolsky, Mark Puymirat, Jack Battail, Christophe Boland, Anne Deleuze, Jean-Francois Mouly, Vincent Klein, Arnaud F. Furling, Denis |
| Abstract | Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) and type 2 (DM2) are autosomal dominant neuromuscular diseases caused by microsatellite expansions and belong to the family of RNA-dominant disorders. Availability of cellular models in which the DM mutation is expressed within its natural context is essential to facilitate efforts to identify new therapeutic compounds. Here, we generated immortalized DM1 and DM2 human muscle cell lines that display nuclear RNA aggregates of expanded repeats, a hallmark of myotonic dystrophy. Selected clones of DM1 and DM2 immortalized myoblasts behave as parental primary myoblasts with a reduced fusion capacity of immortalized DM1 myoblasts when compared with control and DM2 cells. Alternative splicing defects were observed in differentiated DM1 muscle cell lines, but not in DM2 lines. Splicing alterations did not result from differentiation delay because similar changes were found in immortalized DM1 transdifferentiated fibroblasts in which myogenic differentiation has been forced by overexpression of MYOD1. As a proof-of-concept, we show that antisense approaches alleviate disease-associated defects, and an RNA-seq analysis confirmed that the vast majority of mis-spliced events in immortalized DM1 muscle cells were affected by antisense treatment, with half of them significantly rescued in treated DM1 cells. Immortalized DM1 muscle cell lines displaying characteristic disease-associated molecular features such as nuclear RNA aggregates and splicing defects can be used as robust readouts for the screening of therapeutic compounds. Therefore, immortalized DM1 and DM2 muscle cell lines represent new models and tools to investigate molecular pathophysiological mechanisms and evaluate the in vitro effects of compounds on RNA toxicity associated with myotonic dystrophy mutations. |
| Ending Page | 497 |
| Page Count | 11 |
| Starting Page | 487 |
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| ISSN | 17548403 |
| e-ISSN | 17548411 |
| DOI | 10.1242/dmm.027367 |
| Journal | Disease Models & Mechanisms |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 10 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge Company of Biologists |
| Publisher Date | 2017-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Alternative splicing Muscle cell line Nuclear aggregates Myotonic dystrophy Expanded repeats Therapeutic compounds sdv Life Sciences [q-bio] Human health and pathology Cellular Biology |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Neuroscience Immunology and Microbiology Medicine Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
