NEUROLOGY 2004;62:1363-1371
© 2004 American Academy of Neurology
Mutations in myotilin cause myofibrillar myopathy
Duygu Selcen, MD and
Andrew G. Engel, MD
From the Department of Neurology and Neuromuscular Research Laboratory, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Duygu Selcen, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55905; e-mail: selcen.duygu{at}mayo.edu
Background and Objective: The term myofibrillar myopathy (MFM) is a noncommittal term for a pathologic pattern of myofibrillar dissolution associated with accumulation of myofibrillar degradation products and ectopic expression of multiple proteins. Ultrastructural studies implicate the Z-disk as the site of the initial pathologic change, and mutations in two Z-disk-related proteins, desmin and  B-crystallin, have been identified in a minority of patients with MFM. The authors’ objective was to determine whether mutations in myotilin, a key Z-disk component and the disease protein in limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) 1A, are another cause of MFM.
Methods: The authors used histochemical, immunocytochemical, ultrastructural, and mutation analysis.
Results: The authors detected four missense mutations in 6 of 57 patients with MFM in the serine-rich exon 2 of MYOT, where the two previously identified LGMD1A mutations are located. Three mutations were novel, and one had been previously identified in LGMD1A. Each patient had evidence for neuropathy, and at least three kinships had associated cardiomyopathy. Distal weakness greater than proximal weakness was present in three patients. Except for minor differences, the morphologic features were similar to those in other patients with MFM.
Conclusions: 1) Mutations in myotilin cause MFM; 2) exon 2 of MYOT is a hotspot for mutations; 3) peripheral neuropathy, cardiomyopathy, and distal weakness greater than proximal weakness are part of the spectrum of myotilinopathy; 4) not all cases of myotilinopathy have a limb-girdle phenotype; and 5) the molecular basis of the majority of MFM cases remains to be discovered.
Received December 22, 2003.
Accepted in final form February 9, 2004.
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