Calpain 3 mRNA expression in mice after denervation and during muscle regeneration.

Am J Physiol Cell Physiol

Généthon, CNRS URA 1922-1923, 1 bis rue de l'Internationale, BP 60, 91002 Evry, France.

Published: June 2001

Lack of functional calpain 3 in humans is a cause of limb girdle muscular dystrophy, but the function(s) of calpain 3 remain(s) unknown. Special muscle conditions in which calpain 3 is downregulated could yield valuable clues to the understanding of its function(s). We monitored calpain 3 mRNA amounts by quantitative RT-PCR and compared them with those of alpha-skeletal actin mRNA in mouse leg muscles for different types of denervation and muscle injury. Intact muscle denervation reduced calpain 3 mRNA expression by a factor of 5 to 10, while alpha-skeletal actin mRNA was reduced in a slower and less extensive manner. Muscle injury (denervation-devascularization), which leads to muscle degeneration and regeneration, induced a 20-fold decrease in the mRNA level of both calpain 3 and alpha-skeletal actin. Furthermore, whereas in normal muscle and intact denervated muscle, the full-length transcript is the major calpain 3 mRNA, in injured muscle, isoforms lacking exon 6 are predominant during the early regeneration process. These data suggest that muscle condition determines the specific calpain 3 isoform pattern of expression and that calpain 3 expression is downregulated by denervation.

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