Shank3 Related Muscular Hypotonia is Accompanied by Increased Intracellular Calcium Concentrations and Ion Channel Dysregulation in Striated Muscle Tissue

Overview

Journal Front Cell Dev Biol

Specialty Cell Biology

Date 2023 Sep 25

PMID 37745298

Authors

Berra Yildiz

Lisa Schiedt

Medhanie Mulaw

Jurgen Bockmann

Sarah Jesse

Anne-Kathrin Lutz

Tobias M Boeckers

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Abstract

Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a syndromic form of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) classified as a rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorder featuring global developmental delay, absent or delayed speech, ASD-like behaviour and neonatal skeletal muscle hypotonia. PMS is caused by a heterozygous deletion of the distal end of chromosome 22q13.3 or mutations. We analyzed striated muscles of newborn animals and found a significant enlargement of the sarcoplasmic reticulum as previously seen in adult mice, indicative of a Shank3-dependent and not compensatory mechanism for this structural alteration. We analyzed transcriptional differences by RNA-sequencing of muscle tissue of neonatal mice and compared those to controls. We found significant differences in gene expression of ion channels crucial for muscle contraction and for molecules involved in calcium ion regulation. In addition, calcium storage- [i.e., Calsequestrin (CSQ)], calcium secretion- and calcium-related signaling-proteins were found to be affected. By immunostainings and Western blot analyses we could confirm these findings both in mice and PMS patient muscle tissue. Moreover, alterations could be induced by the selective downregulation of Shank3 in C2C12 myotubes. Our results emphasize that SHANK3 levels directly or indirectly regulate calcium homeostasis in a cell autonomous manner that might contribute to muscular hypotonia especially seen in the newborn.

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