Decreased Jun-D and myogenin expression in muscle wasting of human cachexia

AUTOR(ES)

Ramamoorthy, Sonia

FONTE

American Physiological Society

RESUMO

Muscle wasting is a critical feature of patients afflicted by acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), cancer, or chronic inflammatory diseases. In a mouse model of muscle wasting, TNF-α induces oxidative stress and nitric oxide synthase-2 (NOS2) and decreases myogenin, Jun-D, and creatinine kinase muscle isoform (CKM) expression. Here, we studied 12 patients with muscle wasting due to cancer (N = 10) or AIDS (N = 2) and 4 control subjects. We show that in skeletal muscle of cachectic patients there is 1) increased expression and activity of the TNF-α signaling, including TNF-α mRNA, activation of TNFR1, and TNF-α-associated to TNFR1; 2) increased oxidative stress, as determined by the presence of malondialdehyde-lysine adducts; 3) increased NOS2 mRNA and protein; 4) decreased expression of Jun-D, myogenin, myosin, and CKM mRNA and protein; 5) impaired CKM-E box binding activities, associated with decreased Jun-D/myogenin activities; and 6) oxidative modification and ubiquitination of Jun-D. These studies show that these molecular pathways are modulated in association with muscle wasting in patients with cancer or AIDS, and whether or not they cause muscle wasting remains to be determined.

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