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:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is perhaps the most common cause of inherited sudden death in otherwise healthy young individuals. There are presently seven known genes in which mutations have been shown to cause the disease. The first identified disease gene was beta myosin heavy chain (BMHC). Our laboratory has identified 32 distinct BMHC gene mutations in 62 kindreds after screening representatives of over 400 kindreds. Virtually all but one of approximately 50 known mutations are restricted to the head or head-rod junction region of the molecule. We have used the mutant alleles of the BMHC gene to demonstrate that both mutant message and protein is present in the skeletal muscle of patients with HCM. Muscle biopsies from patients with identified BMHC mutations show abnormal histology. Isolated myosin and skinned fibers from these patients have abnormal mechanical properties. The BMHC gene mutations are clustered in 4 regions of the myosin head. Because one of these regions is adjacent to the ELC, we scanned HCM patient DNA for mutations in either the ELC or RLC. Linkage analysis showed that a unique mutation in the ELC caused a rare phenotype of HCM in one family. Other mutations in either light chain were also associated with the same rare phenotype in other families. Through several lines of reasoning we hypothesized that the light chain mutations interfere with the stretch-activation response of papillary muscle and adjacent ventricular tissue. This property is critical to oscillatory power output of insect flight muscle. We conjectured that this property is also exploited by portions of the heart to increase power output. In order to test this hypothesis we constructed transgenic mouse lines expressing either the human normal or mutant ELC. The cardiac morphology and mechanical properties of the transgenic mouse papillary muscle is now being studied.
journal_name
Adv Exp Med Bioljournal_title
Advances in experimental medicine and biologyauthors
Epstein NDdoi
10.1007/978-1-4684-6039-1_13subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-01-01 00:00:00pages
105-14; discussion 114-5eissn
0065-2598issn
2214-8019journal_volume
453pub_type
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