Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Myoglobinopathy is an adult-onset autosomal dominant myopathy with characteristic sarcoplasmic inclusions

  • Montse Olivé,
  • Martin Engvall,
  • Gianina Ravenscroft,
  • Macarena Cabrera-Serrano,
  • Hong Jiao,
  • Carlo Augusto Bortolotti,
  • Marcello Pignataro,
  • Matteo Lambrughi,
  • Haibo Jiang,
  • Alistair R. R. Forrest,
  • Núria Benseny-Cases,
  • Stefan Hofbauer,
  • Christian Obinger,
  • Gianantonio Battistuzzi,
  • Marzia Bellei,
  • Marco Borsari,
  • Giulia Di Rocco,
  • Helena M. Viola,
  • Livia C. Hool,
  • Josep Cladera,
  • Kristina Lagerstedt-Robinson,
  • Fengqing Xiang,
  • Anna Wredenberg,
  • Francesc Miralles,
  • Juan José Baiges,
  • Edoardo Malfatti,
  • Norma B. Romero,
  • Nathalie Streichenberger,
  • Christophe Vial,
  • Kristl G. Claeys,
  • Chiara S. M. Straathof,
  • An Goris,
  • Christoph Freyer,
  • Martin Lammens,
  • Guillaume Bassez,
  • Juha Kere,
  • Paula Clemente,
  • Thomas Sejersen,
  • Bjarne Udd,
  • Noemí Vidal,
  • Isidre Ferrer,
  • Lars Edström,
  • Anna Wedell,
  • Nigel G. Laing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09111-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Myoglobin is a hemeprotein that reversibly binds oxygen and gives muscle its red color. Here, the authors report a genetic variant in the MB gene that associates with myoglobinopathy, an autosomal dominant progressive myopathy, and altered oxygen binding properties of the mutant protein.