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First published online 20 January 2004
doi: 10.1242/jcs.00911

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Loss of basement membrane, receptor and cytoskeletal lattices in a laminin-deficient muscular dystrophy

¹ Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
² Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

^* Author for correspondence (e-mail: yurchenc{at}umdnj.edu)

Accepted 2 October 2003

Basement membrane laminins bearing the 2-subunit interact with -dystroglycan and ß1-integrins, cell-surface receptors that are found within the rectilinear costameric lattices of skeletal muscle sarcolemma. Mutations of the 2 subunit are a major cause of congenital muscular dystrophy. To determine whether the costameres are altered as a result of laminin 2-mutations, the skeletal muscle surface of a dystrophic mouse (dy^2J/dy^2J) lacking the 2-LN domain was examined by confocal and widefield deconvolution immunomicroscopy. Although the dy^2J dystrophic fibers possessed a normal-appearing distribution of 2-laminins and -dystroglycan within a rectilinear costameric lattice at 6.5 weeks of age, by 11 weeks the surface architecture of these components were found to be disorganized, with frequent effacement of the circumferential and longitudinal lattice striations. The defect in the lattice organization was also noted to be a characteristic of type IV collagen, nidogen, perlecan, ß1_D-integrin, dystrophin and vinculin. The development of this pattern change occurring only after birth suggests that although 2-laminins are not essential for the initial assembly of the costameric framework, they play a role in maintaining the stability and organization of the framework.

Key words: Dystroglycan, Costamere, Muscular dystrophy, Basement membrane

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