Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Defective excitation-contraction coupling and mitochondrial respiration precede mitochondrial Ca2+ accumulation in spinobulbar muscular atrophy skeletal muscle

  • Caterina Marchioretti,
  • Giulia Zanetti,
  • Marco Pirazzini,
  • Gaia Gherardi,
  • Leonardo Nogara,
  • Roberta Andreotti,
  • Paolo Martini,
  • Lorenzo Marcucci,
  • Marta Canato,
  • Samir R. Nath,
  • Emanuela Zuccaro,
  • Mathilde Chivet,
  • Cristina Mammucari,
  • Marco Pacifici,
  • Anna Raffaello,
  • Rosario Rizzuto,
  • Andrea Mattarei,
  • Maria A. Desbats,
  • Leonardo Salviati,
  • Aram Megighian,
  • Gianni Sorarù,
  • Elena Pegoraro,
  • Elisa Belluzzi,
  • Assunta Pozzuoli,
  • Carlo Biz,
  • Pietro Ruggieri,
  • Chiara Romualdi,
  • Andrew P. Lieberman,
  • Gopal J. Babu,
  • Marco Sandri,
  • Bert Blaauw,
  • Manuela Basso,
  • Maria Pennuto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36185-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Marchioretti and colleagues show that in the skeletal muscle of SBMA mice and patients there is an early, but reversible alteration of expression of genes involved in muscle contraction and of mitochondrial respiration, followed by accumulation of calcium inside the mitochondria, which is concomitant with the onset of motor dysfunction, and late alteration of muscle structure.