Mitochondrial hydrogen sulfide supplementation improves health in the C. elegans Duchenne muscular dystrophy model.
Mitochondrial hydrogen sulfide supplementation improves health in the C. elegans Duchenne muscular dystrophy model.
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.2018342118
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发表时间:
2021-03-02
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Szewczyk NJ
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Ellwood RA;Hewitt JE;Torregrossa R;Philp AM;Hardee JP;Hughes S;van de Klashorst D;Gharahdaghi N;Anupom T;Slade L;Deane CS;Cooke M;Etheridge T;Piasecki M;Antebi A;Lynch GS;Philp A;Vanapalli SA;Whiteman M;Szewczyk NJ
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal degenerative disease without a cure. Current standard pharmacological treatment is corticosteroids. Their prolonged use is associated with several undesirable side effects. Using Caenorhabditis elegans, we have identified pharmacological treatments that supplement hydrogen sulfide (H2S). One, sodium GYY4137, largely acts like prednisone to improve neuromuscular health; the other, AP39, targets H2S delivery to mitochondria. As these are not steroids, they are unlikely to produce steroid-induced side effects. Additionally, as DMD mice show a decline in total sulfide, our results pave the way for evaluation of cellular and/or mitochondrial H2S in DMD pathology and warrant further investigation of selective H2S delivery approaches in mdx mice and/or higher animal models of DMD. Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive disorder characterized by progressive muscle degeneration and weakness due to mutations in the dystrophin gene. The symptoms of DMD share similarities with those of accelerated aging. Recently, hydrogen sulfide (H2S) supplementation has been suggested to modulate the effects of age-related decline in muscle function, and metabolic H2S deficiencies have been implicated in affecting muscle mass in conditions such as phenylketonuria. We therefore evaluated the use of sodium GYY4137 (NaGYY), a H2S-releasing molecule, as a possible approach for DMD treatment. Using the dys-1(eg33) Caenorhabditis elegans DMD model, we found that NaGYY treatment (100 µM) improved movement, strength, gait, and muscle mitochondrial structure, similar to the gold-standard therapeutic treatment, prednisone (370 µM). The health improvements of either treatment required the action of the kinase JNK-1, the transcription factor SKN-1, and the NAD-dependent deacetylase SIR-2.1. The transcription factor DAF-16 was required for the health benefits of NaGYY treatment, but not prednisone treatment. AP39 (100 pM), a mitochondria-targeted H2S compound, also improved movement and strength in the dys-1(eg33) model, further implying that these improvements are mitochondria-based. Additionally, we found a decline in total sulfide and H2S-producing enzymes in dystrophin/utrophin knockout mice. Overall, our results suggest that H2S deficit may contribute to DMD pathology, and rectifying/overcoming the deficit with H2S delivery compounds has potential as a therapeutic approach to DMD treatment.
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