Abstract
In skeletal muscle a rise in the cytosolic calcium concentration is the first trigger able to initiate the contraction of the sarcomere. Intracellular calcium levels are tightly controlled by channels and pumps, and it is not surprising that many inherited skeletal muscle disorders arise from mutations altering the players regulating calcium ions concentration (Betzenhauser and Marks 2010). In this chapter, we will focus on the pathologies linked to the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium channel-RyR1 mutations.
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1 The Muscle Excitation-Contraction Coupling: Calcium Release Complex and RyR1
Skeletal muscle contraction is initiated by a burst of calcium out of its major store, the sarcoplasmic reticulum. This rise in intracellular calcium concentration is triggered by a post synaptic action potential which propagates along the muscle fiber and reaches plasma membrane invaginations called transverse tubules. Transverse tubules (T-tubules) form regular invaginations along the muscle axis and make close and periodic contacts with the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) that is wrapped around the myofibril apparatus. These peculiar membrane structures are called triads (Fig. 9.1). Triads are formed by the tight apposition of two terminal cisternae of SR on both sides of a T-tubule, and are specifically localized at the A-I bands transition in mammalian skeletal muscle. The transformation of an action potential into a massive calcium release, a process called the Excitation-Contraction (EC) coupling, is performed by a macromolecular complex, the Calcium Release Complex (CRC). This complex is anchored both in the T-tubules membrane and in the SR membrane, and has specific triad localization. The main players of CRC are the dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR), an L-type calcium channel of the T-tubules membrane, and the ryanodine receptor (RyR1), the sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium channel (Fig. 9.1). When an incoming action potential reaches the T-tubules, it activates the voltage gated DHPR, which functions both as a calcium channel and a voltage sensor. This first step triggers a conformational modification in the alpha 1 subunit of DHPR (Cav1.1) which is in direct contact with RyR1. The physical coupling allows a structural modification in the RyR1 channel upon DHPR activation that results in its opening and in a massive calcium efflux from the terminal cisternae of SR. The released calcium interacts with the myofilaments and induces the muscle contraction. Muscle relaxation occurs when RyR1 closes as a result of high cytosolic calcium concentration, and calcium is reuptake into the sarcoplasmic reticulum by the SERCA (Sarcoplasmic Endoplasmic Reticulum ATPase) calcium pump.
When analyzed by electron microscopy (EM), triad membranes appear as regular structures, with a 15 nm space between T-tubule and SR membrane. In this space, the cytosolic part of the 2.3 MDa RyR1 tetramer is so large that it forms an electron dense structure, the characteristic “feet” early observed between T-tubule and SR terminal cisternae (Franzini-Armstrong et al. 1983). The protein was identified thanks to its binding to ryanodine, an alkaloid extracted from the tropical plant Ryana speciosa, and shown to be the intracellular calcium channel of muscle cells (Inui et al. 1987). In mammals, three isoforms of ryanodine receptor have been cloned from three different genes arising from a common ancestor. RyR1 is the major skeletal muscle isoform, but is also expressed in lymphocytes and dendritic cells (Bracci et al. 2007; Uemura et al. 2007) or in specific areas of the central nervous system (Giannini et al. 1995). RyR2 is predominantly expressed in the heart, but it is also in the main brain isoform. RyR3 is weakly expressed in a large panel of tissues, among which skeletal muscle and brain. The repertoire of ryanodine receptors may vary in gene composition and expression among species. In teleost fishes RYR2 and RYR3 are conserved but the RYR1 gene has been duplicated in α and β isoforms, respectively expressed in fast- or slow-twitch muscles (Franck et al. 1998; Hirata et al. 2007), whereas in the genome of Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster, only one RYR homologous gene is found (Hasan et al. 1992; Maryon et al. 1996).
The human RYR1 gene is located on chromosome 19q13.2. It spans 153 865 base pairs, and contains 106 exons. RYR1 is alternatively spliced for the exons 70 and 83, but the functional role of these splicing events is unclear. The 560 kDa protein RyR1 consists of 5038 amino acid that share 60–70 % identity with RyR2 and RyR3. The functional RyR1 channel is a homotetramer whose structure is so far only partially solved. Cryo-electron microcopy images have allowed 9.6 Å resolution reconstitutions of the 3D structure of the channel (Serysheva et al. 2008) in different activation states (Samsó et al. 2009). More recently, portions of the molecule have been crystalized and their structure identified at atomic resolution (Tung et al. 2010; Yuchi et al. 2012).
Nevertheless, in the absence of precise localization, most of the functional domains that have been identified for RyR1 are mapped on the linear sequence of the protein (Fig. 9.2): E–C domains allowing interaction with the DHPR or regulatory proteins of the CRC such as calmodulin and FKBP12, modulatory regions allowing the interaction with kinases (PKC and PKA), ATP, and calcium ions. The major part (4,000 first amino acids) of the RyR1 sequence is cytosolic, and forms the so-called “feet” of the molecule observed in EM. A number of modulators of RyR1 have their binding domain in this huge cytosolic region: Ca2+, ATP, Mg2+ as well as pharmacological agents (ryanodine, caffeine, halothane, dantrolene, or ruthenium red). It is also in the cytosolic part that RyR1 undergoes phosphorylation and nitrosylation, both modifications being involved in the regulation of the channel activity (Lanner et al. 2010). The last 1,000 amino acids, the C-terminal part of the protein, contain 6–8 transmembrane helices responsible for SR membrane anchoring and form the pore domain of the channel (Du et al. 2002). In its isolated form, the RyR1 channel is activated by Ca2+ or ryanodine at low concentration (μM), by ATP, caffeine, or halothane. On the other hand, elevated concentrations (>100 μM) of Ca2+, Mg2+, and ryanodine inhibit its activity (Meissner 1994). Hence the sensibility of RyR1 to different ranges of calcium concentration allows the channel to be in a closed state at resting calcium levels (50–150 nM) and to be inactivated when cytosolic calcium concentration rise above the mM range, preventing a deleterious prolonged activation (Fill and Copello 2002).
2 Implication of RYR1 in Muscle Pathologies
Two classes of pathologies that differ in their presentation have been so far associated to the RYR1 gene: The first one is triggered by external stimuli and the second one appears at birth (Fig. 9.3). The first pathology ever associated to RyR1 was Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) in 1991 (Gillard et al. 1991). Mutations in RyR1 were further identified in association with Central Core Disease (CCD), a congenital myopathy of moderate severity, characterized by the presence of “cores”, abnormalities in the muscle fiber revealed either by histology or electron microscopy studies (Magee et al. 1956). The description of severe forms of myopathies with cores and of other myopathies with histological abnormalities has then led to the notion that a whole class of myopathies, now called RyR1-Related Congenital Myopathies or RyR1-RCM, can be related to RyR1 dysfunction.
2.1 Induced Myopathies
2.1.1 Malignant Hyperthermia
Malignant Hyperthermia (OMIM:145600) is a pharmacogenetic disease of the skeletal muscle with a dominant mode of inheritance. The MH crisis is triggered by exposition to inhalational anesthetics, like halothane or isoflurane, and results in a hypermetabolic state of skeletal muscles. It is actually the clinical expression of an otherwise infra-clinic metabolic myopathy (Rosenberg et al. 2007). The exposition of susceptible individuals to the triggering agent leads to an increase in the myoplasmic calcium concentration followed by a generalized muscle contracture and by hyperthermia. A MH crisis will rapidly result in acidosis of both respiratory and metabolic origin, in a progressive degradation of muscle with a major rhabdomyolysis, together with hyperkalemia responsible for cardiac arrhythmia, hypercapnia and central hyperthermia. Hence, a MH crisis can be lethal in absence of the prompt administration of sodium dantrolene, a calcium channel blocker.
The exact prevalence of MH susceptibility is difficult to evaluate because patients do not present with symptoms apart from exposition to the triggering agent. Empirically, it has been estimated that each year 1 MH crisis arise among a population of 2 million people in Europe or North-America. This estimation probably underestimates the genetic MH susceptibility in the general population. Indeed, it has been shown that some patients undergo a MH crisis only at the second or third exposition to the triggering agent. Based on the genetic studies, it was calculated that the frequency of RYR1 mutations responsible for MH could reach 1/2,000 in the general population (Monnier et al. 2002).
In vitro studies demonstrated that contraction of skeletal muscles fibers from MH susceptible patients in response to caffeine or halothane was enhanced compared to control. This observation was pivotal in the development of a biologic testing allowing the identification of individuals at risk for MH, the in vitro contracture test (IVCT). Two protocols are prevailing today, one used in North America and the other in Europe, and although they are based on the very same principle they differ in their experimental details and interpretation. In Europe, the contraction level of muscle fibers bathed in buffers containing increasing doses of caffeine or halothane allows to define phenotypes as normal (MHN), equivocal (MHE, when fibers contract in response to low doses of only one of the triggering agent), or susceptible (MHS, when muscle contracts in response to both agents). Noticeably, patients tested as MHE are regarded as clinically susceptible to MH. In the North American protocol, individuals are considered as susceptible to MH whenever the fibers contract with caffeine or halothane. Positive testing in IVCT is still the gold standard for MH diagnosis (EMHG 1984), but despite a 99 % sensitivity and a 94 % specificity, this test can still lead to false positive results. In Japan, a muscle biopsy is also required to test MH susceptibility, but the protocol uses the measure of calcium induced calcium release on skinned fibers (Ibarra et al. 2006). Independently of the protocol used to test MH susceptibility, genetic analysis is mandatory to identify the mutation thus allowing less invasive testing of relatives.
The RYR1 gene was linked to MH in 1990 (MacLennan et al. 1990; McCarthy et al. 1990), and the first mutation described 1 year later (Gillard et al. 1991). To date, more than 160 mutations have been associated to MH (Monnier et al. 2005; Robinson et al. 2006; Sambuughin et al. 2005). The mutations are clustered in three regions of the gene: MH1, corresponding to the N-terminal part of the protein between amino acids 35 and 614; MH2, a central zone between amino acids 2,163 and 2,458; and MH3, localized in the C-terminal transmembrane domain (Fig. 9.2). In the European population, exhaustive sequencing showed that 60–75 % of the MH susceptible families have a RYR1 mutation (Robinson et al. 2006), suggesting the involvement of other genes. MH genetic heterogeneity was confirmed when the gene encoding the α1-subunit of the DHPR, was also linked to the pathology, with different mutations being described in CACNA1S (Monnier et al. 1997; Pirone et al. 2011; Stewart et al. 2001; Toppin et al. 2010). However, genetic detection of a RYR1 mutation has been accepted as an established cause of MH only for 30 well-characterized RYR1 variants (http://www.emhg.org), and so far only the identification in a patient of one of these 30 mutations can replace a positive IVCT test as a formal MH diagnosis (Urwyler et al. 2001).
RYR1 mutations associated to MH are inherited on a dominant mode and are for most of them missense mutations or small DNA deletion leading to in-frame amino acids deletions. Some mutations are highly recurrent and patients with homozygous RyR1 MH mutation have been characterized. Their phenotype was similar to heterozygous patients, except for elevated plasma creatine kinase levels (Monnier et al. 2002). Although MH is considered as a non-symptomatic syndrome without exposition to the triggering agent, clinical manifestations such as myalgias, cramps, and rhabdomyolysis have been reported among few MH susceptible patients, most of them after physical exercise (Wappler et al. 2001).
2.1.2 Exertional Heat Stroke
Exertional Heat Stroke (EHS) is characterized by hyperthermia, central neurologic disorders, and variable levels of rhabdomyolysis during, or after, an intense or prolonged physical exercise. EHS is considered as exercise-induced hyperthermia.
EHS should be distinguished from Heat Stroke (HS) arising from exposure to overheated environment and Exercise-linked Rhabdomyolysis (ER), which usually happens after an intense exercise inducing skeletal muscles damages resulting to mechanical or metabolic stress. Notably, ER can precede EHS.
MHS, EHS, and ER are characterized by abnormal metabolic states with enhanced oxidative stress and increased cytosolic calcium levels (Capacchione et al. 2009). A common genetic defect has been hypothesized to explain this hypermetabolic state. Accordingly, a few studies have shown that mutations in the RYR1 gene are detected in ER or EHS patients (Tobin et al. 2001; Wappler et al. 2001), without a clear evidence of clustering (Fig. 9.4). Our laboratory has recently shown in collaboration with the medical health service of the French Army that 15 % of the patients presenting with an EHS phenotype had a positive IVCT (unpublished data). Moreover, 25 % of these EHS/MHS patients had a RYR1 variation. Without further analysis of these RYR1 gene variations, it is however difficult to demonstrate their role in the pathophysiology of EHS. It can still be concluded form this study that individuals with RYR1 MH-related variations could be at risk of EHS during intensive physical exercise, which is in accordance with the usual recommendation made to MHS patients not to practice prolonged and intensive physical activities (Hopkins et al. 2007).
2.2 Congenital Myopathies
2.2.1 A Heterogeneous Family of Pathologies
Congenital myopathies (CM) are a group of muscle diseases with heterogeneity in clinical, genetic, and histological presentations whose discovery has been tightly correlated with the development of histology and electron microscopy in the 1960s. The estimated incidence of CM is 6/100,000, which would rank CM among the most frequent myopathies. CM are often associated with a neonatal hypotonia of variable severity and a non-progressive muscle weakness. A primary diaphragm dysfunction can be the major sign for severe dominant phenotypes. Molecular genetic studies have revealed several genes responsible for the various forms of CM: ACTA1, NEB, RYR1, SEPN1, MTM1, DNM2 … A first attempt of CM classification has been performed based exclusively on the histological observations. However, the recent molecular studies have shown the existence of various clinical presentations with overlapping histological and genetic bases (Dubowitz and Swery 2007). The RYR1 gene was initially associated only with dominant forms of Central Core Disease (CCD), but is now also linked to Multi-minicore Disease (MmD), Core Myopathies with rods, CentroNuclear Myopathy (CNM), and Congenital Fiber Type disproportion (CFTD) (Wilmshurst et al. 2010; Clarke et al. 2010). Altogether, the pathologies involving the RYR1 gene, although variable in their clinical signs, should be classified as RyR1-Related Congenital Myopathies (RyR1-RCM).
2.2.2 Dominant Myopathies Linked to RYR1
2.2.2.1 Central Core Disease and Other Moderate Forms
In 1956, Shy and Magee described a new non-progressive myopathy, inherited on a dominant mode and affecting 5 patients from 2–65 years of age in three generations of the same family. The initial clinical description showed a congenital hypotonia, a delayed motor acquisition during childhood, and a slow evolution toward legs proximal muscles weakness (Shy and Magee 1956). Histological analysis revealed the presence in central portion of the fiber of numerous zones devoid of oxidative and phosphorylative activities (Fig. 9.5a), spanning along the entire longitudinal axis of the muscle. In 1958 the name “Central Core Disease” was proposed for such a clinical presentation (Greenfield et al. 1958). Cores morphology observed in electron microscopy is in agreement with histological data, showing absence of mitochondria and of sarcoplasmic reticulum in these regions associated with massive sarcomeric disorganization. Although the Central Core Disease initially described by Shy and Magee is the main dominant form, other histological presentations have been described (cores and rods, multiple cores, minicores) (Table 9.1 and Fig. 9.5) (Romero et al. 2005), associated with moderate hypotonia in early childhood, delay in motor milestone acquisition, and muscle weakness. The walking ability is usually preserved and the evolution is slowly progressive, although orthopedic complications often give rise to scoliosis. In less than 10 % of the cases, a severe neonatal hypotonia is associated to delay in motor function acquisition, however the evolution is usually favorable. The involvement of the 19q13.1 locus, which contains the RYR1 gene, has been proposed since 1990 by linkage analyses performed in families with dominant forms of CCD (Haan et al. 1990). To date, tenths of mutations in RYR1 have been associated with dominants forms of CCD, with more than 85 % of them being localized in the C-terminal pore forming region of the protein (Lynch et al. 1999; Monnier et al. 2000; Monnier et al. 2001; Scacheri et al. 2000). The identified CCD mutations are until now exclusively missense mutations or in-frame micro deletions of one or few amino acid. From our experience on a cohort of 116 patients with moderate forms of CCD, 40 % of the 71 mutations we have found are recurrent or highly recurrent (Fig. 9.4). Mutation p.Arg4861His was for instance identified in 13 % of the patients, and mutation p.Arg2508Cys in 6 % of the patients. De novo mutations are very frequent (25 %) in these dominant CCD forms.
2.2.2.2 Severe Dominant Neonatal Cores Myopathy
Although the majority of dominant mutations of RYR1 are associated with moderate forms of the disease, in our experience 15 % of them were associated with a severe neonatal hypotonia that led to respiratory failure and could be lethal in the first weeks. Half of these patients required respiratory assistance, 2/3 did not acquire walking and 1/3 showed signs of multiple arthrogyposis from birth. These severe forms of CCD were associated with de novo missense mutations localized in the C-terminal domain (Fig. 9.2), half of them being clustered in the last luminal loop forming the pore of the RyR1 channel.
2.2.2.3 Inter- and Intra familial Phenotypic Heterogeneity
Recurrent mutations have allowed the study of interfamilial phenotypic heterogeneity for CCD. Among the 83 dominant mutations our laboratory has identified, 5 are responsible for both severe and moderate clinical signs. For instance the p.Arg4861Cys mutation detected in 30 % of de novo severe forms has also been identified in 3 % of the moderate forms of CCD. Along the same line, the p.Ile4898Thr mutation associated to moderate phenotypes has been associated to a lethal de novo myopathy in twins (Hernandez-Lain et al. 2011). Such variability in phenotypic expression can be observed among members of the same family and in 8 % of the families we have explored, clinical signs worsened from one generation to the next. Only once was the aggravation associated to another variation in the RYR1 gene (Monnier et al. 2008) showing that intrafamilial variability could arise from genetic background or variations in modifying genes.
2.2.3 Recessive Mutations Associated to RyR1
The description of recessive forms of congenital myopathies linked to RyR1 is more recent (Ferreiro et al. 2002a; Monnier et al. 2003; Romero et al. 2003). Congenital Multi-minicore Disease (MmD) of recessive mode of inheritance was defined on histological bases by the observation of multiple small regions devoid of oxidative activity, of only few sarcomers length, in both type I and II fibers (Ferreiro et al. 2000). The selenoprotein N gene (SEPN1) was first associated with 50 % of the severe so-called “classical” forms of MmD (Ferreiro et al. 2002b). However, RYR1 mutations were further identified in families with MmD forms associated with external ophtamloplegia, as an indication of the genetic heterogeneity of MmD (Monnier et al. 2003).
Further molecular studies showed that the number of MmD patients harboring RyR1 mutations was more important than initially suspected (Klein et al. 2012; Monnier et al. 2008; Zhou et al. 2006). Recessive RyR1 mutations have been identified in 30 % of the severe MmD cases we have analyzed. Clinical signs of MmD comprise neonatal hypotonia, severe respiratory failure, sucking and swallowing difficulties, eye muscle involvement (ophtalmoplegia, ophtalmoparesis, ptosis), arthrogryposis, and skeletal deformations in 1/3 of the cases (scoliosis, cyphoscoliosis, hyperlordosis). The generalized muscle weakness leads to lethality in 30 % of the severe cases. The clinical signs associated to moderate recessive forms of MmD linked to RyR1 mutations are similar to those of moderate dominant forms of CCD, except for eye muscle involvement, usually not associated to CCD.
Histologically, the analysis of MmD can be confusing because of the large spectrum of signs, which can even be associated to other forms of congenital myopathies. First the cores can vary in size, number or morphology, depending on the muscle explored or the age of the patient. Cores presentation can vary for a same patient on biopsies performed at different ages. Cores can also be associated with rods, or nuclei internalization, that are the main sign for the Centronuclear Myopathy (CNM). Nevertheless, opposite to CNM, internalizations of nuclei are usually associated in MmD with myofibrilar disorganization. At last, nonspecific histological presentations have also been reported, with a few centralized nuclei, local myofibrilar disorganization, predominance or hypotrophy of type I fibers. In rare cases a fiber type disproportion has also been described (Fig. 9.5).
Whereas mutations in the RYR1 gene leading to CCD are clustered in hot spots, mutations linked to MmD are spread all along the coding sequence (Fig. 9.4). Our laboratory has entirely sequenced the RYR1 gene in 106 families with recessive RyR1-RCM. Seventy five percent of the mutations we have detected are missense or small duplication/deletion mutations, among which 8 % are also known to be responsible for MH when expressed at the heterozygous state. The remaining 25 % of the mutations are nonsense mutation or are mutations affecting mRNA or protein stability, leading to a quantitative defect of RyR1 in the affected muscle (Monnier et al. 2008). A compound heterozygous status with 2 associated missense mutations was found for 58 % of the patient with a recessive form of RyR1-RCM. In 37 % of these cases a missense mutation was associated with a mutation affecting the quantity of RyR1 protein (nonsense or splicing mutation). Two mutations affecting RyR1 quantities were associated with only 5 % of the cases, (Klein et al. 2012; Monnier et al. 2003; Monnier et al. 2008; Zhou et al. 2006). However, a RyR1-RCM with complete loss of RyR1 protein has never been described so far, in good agreement with studies performed on mice showing that deletion of the RYR1 gene is lethal (Takeshima et al. 1994).
2.2.4 Complexity of RyR1-RCM Diagnosis
RyR1-RCM are among the most frequent congenital myopathies. Historically, RyR1-RCM were classified into clearly distinct entities: MH, which manifestation follows exposition to inhalational anesthetics, and CCD, characterized by muscle weakness and histologically diagnosed after analysis of muscle biopsies. The identification of core structures on muscle sections has remained a strong hint of a pathology linked to the RYR1 gene, especially with the increasing number of recessive mutations involved in MmD. The presence of cores as a sign of Core Myopathy should nonetheless be taken with care. A study realized in our laboratory on a panel of 242 Malignant Hyperthermia patients without any muscle weakness has shown the presence of cores in 20 % of the biopsies (Monnier et al. 2005). These patients harbored a RYR1 mutation, cores had been observed on muscle sections, but they did not show clinical signs of a myopathy. They should therefore be classified as “MHS patients with cores” rather than MH/CCD patients as it is sometimes stated in the literature. The “CCD/MH” phenotype should exclusively be attributed to patients that present with clear signs of both pathologies, on the histological and clinical point of view, which mean they have both a muscle weakness together with a positive susceptibility to MH.
With the increasing heterogeneity of clinical presentations that can be linked to RYR1 mutations, histopathology analysis has to be backed by other techniques to refine the diagnosis. Interestingly, the skeletal muscles MRI profile from RyR1-RCM patients has been described as typical and could be used as a strong indication for investigations of the RYR1 gene. The gluteus maximus from limb girdle, the vastus lateralis, adductor magnus, and sartorius from tight as well as the soleus from the leg are often altered, whereas the rectus femoris, biceps femoris, gracilus, and gastrocnemius are preserved (Jungbluth et al. 2004; Quijano-Roy et al. 2011). Genetic studies are nevertheless mandatory to show the involvement of RYR1. Although RyR1 mutations are frequent and spread all over the coding sequence, about 40 % of patients with well-characterized forms of CCD analyzed in our laboratory have no mutation in their entire RyR1 coding sequence, showing also a genetic heterogeneity of this congenital myopathy.
The ongoing introduction of massive parallel sequencing (or Next Generation Sequencing, NGS) in clinical diagnosis will most probably modify the strategies used to investigate heterogeneous muscle diseases. With such powerful sequencing capacity, it will be tempting to systematically sequence RYR1 gene for any clinical presentation with minimal signs of RyR1-RCM. This approach will probably be useful but must be balanced with the complexity of the pathophysiological mechanisms so far revealed. With an expected increase in the number of detected RyR1 variants, it will soon be mandatory to have clear information regarding the functional effect for each of these variations in order to unambiguously confirm their role in the pathology: disease causing mutation, modifying factor or polymorphisms. The detailed investigation of pathophysiological mechanisms for RyR1-RCM is thus a key step in the diagnosis process of these myopathies.
3 Pathophysiological Mechanisms Associated to RyR1 Mutations
Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain the impact of missense RyR1 mutations (Betzenhauser and Marks 2010; Lanner et al. 2010; MacLennan and Zvaritch 2011), as a result of functional studies performed using different tools. A number of studies used cells produced from the patients (primary muscle cultures, myotubes produced from patient’s fibroblasts transformed into muscle progenitors by MyoD expression, or immortalized lymphocytes). Other studies used expression of mutant RyR1 in non-muscle cell lines (HEK cells) or in mouse muscle cells devoid of endogenous RyR1 (primary culture from RyR1 KO mouse muscles). Some mutations have been studied with the different expression systems, and the proposed mechanisms are different, indicating that each expression system has its limitation and drawback. Therefore the actual pathophysiological mechanisms resulting from a precise mutation are probably more complex than the simplified and schematic mechanisms described thereafter.
3.1 RyR1 Gain of Function
Some of the studies led to the conclusion that mutant forms of RyR1 have a gain of function, i.e., the channel is releasing an increased amount of calcium in some conditions. This gain of function could have two expressions. First it can result in a hypersensitivity of the channel to pharmacologic agents (halothane, caffeine,…), which is characteristic of the so-called “MH mutation.” This is typically what is assayed when performing IVCT, and correspond to the shift in the dose response curve representing the amplitude of calcium released by increasing concentrations of caffeine or chlorocresol. It has been proposed that these MH mutations lower the threshold of RyR1 activation by luminal calcium in the presence of triggering agents, thus inducing massive and physiologically mis-regulated calcium efflux (Tong et al. 1997). This calcium overload would then be responsible for the generalized muscle contraction and the hypermetabolic state typical for the MH crisis. The second expression of a RyR1 gain of function is a calcium leak in physiological situations where the channel should be closed, at very low (<μM) or very high (>mM) calcium concentration. If this calcium leak is not compensated by an increased calcium flux toward the SR, it will result in a reduction in the amount of calcium stored in the SR. As a consequence the amount of calcium released upon stimulation will be reduced, and so will be the muscle contraction (Tong et al. 1999). Depending on the expression system used to assay such mutations (muscle cells equipped with all the calcium channels and pumps, or non-muscle cells expressing only few of them) and on the type of expression performed (transient expression or long term, chronic expression) a compensation of the calcium leak can be in place or not. This compensation can be performed for example by overexpression of SERCA pumps or of the membrane calcium channel involved in SOCE (Store Operated Calcium Entry), both mechanisms leading to an increase in the calcium flux toward the SR. But the compensatory overexpression of proteins will only occur upon chronic alteration. As a consequence, discordant results have been reported for the same mutation. For example, an increase in the basal cytosolic calcium concentration has been observed in some expression systems but not in other for the p.R2435L mutation (Dirksen et al. 2004; Ghassemi et al. 2009). The “physiological” calcium leak does not always lead to a detectable increase in the cytosolic calcium concentration at rest, but it is always translated in a reduction in the amount of calcium stored, explaining why mutations resulting in a gain of function in RyR1 at rest could be also associated with congenital myopathies (Ghassemi et al. 2009).
The molecular mechanisms leading to RyR1 gain of function and to calcium leak has been related to redox state of the muscle fiber. For many years, RyR1 has been known as sensitive to oxidizing agents (Eu et al. 2000), and has been proposed as a redox sensor in the skeletal muscle cell (Hidalgo et al. 2005). The amino acids involved in this sensibility have been identified (Aracena-Parks et al. 2006), and it has been shown that oxidative modification like S-nitrosylation of RyR1 results in a reduction in its association to FKBP12 (Aracena et al. 2005; Zissimopoulos et al. 2007). FKBP12 stabilizes RyR1 closed state (Brillantes et al. 1994), and dissociation of FKBP12 from RyR1 leads to a leaky calcium channel. This calcium leak increases the production of oxygen or nitrogen reactive species, which in turn increase the oxidative modifications of RyR1 and the calcium leak, in a deleterious circle. This mechanism has been observed in association with other pathologies such as Duchenne Muscular dystrophy (Bellinger et al. 2009) and aging (Anderson et al. 2011), where it amplified the muscle weakness but it has also been observed as a direct consequence of a RyR1 mutation, for example the p.Y522S mutation (Durham et al. 2008).
3.2 RyR1 Loss of Function
A second mechanism has been described to explain the effect of missense RyR1 mutation associated with congenital myopathies. An alteration of the E–C coupling, i.e., the coupling between the DHPR and RyR1, has been proposed to be at the origin of the pathology, and has been named “E–C uncoupling” (Dirksen et al. 2002). The observed effect of different mutations showed that membrane depolarization induced a reduction in calcium release although resting calcium levels were normal, excluding the presence of a leaky RyR1. The p.I4898T mutant form of RyR1 is for instance not able to mediate calcium efflux when stimulated by the DHPR (the coupling mechanism called “orthograde”). However the presence of the p.I4898T mutation does not alter the regulation of DHPR by RyR1, also called “retrograde coupling,” a mechanism that requires the sole presence of RyR1 channel in front of the DHPR, showing that the RyR1 tetramer is correctly targeted to the triad (Avila et al. 2001). More than an “E–C uncoupling,” this mechanism is in fact an alteration of the permeability of RyR to calcium, which has now been clearly demonstrated in a mouse model reproducing this p.I4898T mutation (Loy et al. 2011). The consequence of this kind of mutation, lethal at the homozygous state in mouse, is a muscle weakness, which most probably correlates to inefficient coupling between the excitation stimulus mediated by DHPR and RyR1 channel opening. A physical “E–C uncoupling,” namely the abolition of the interaction between DHPR and RyR1, has never been observed up to now, either because it too damaging for the cells, or because it relies on multiple contact points, involving different regions of RyR1, and could not be altered by a single point mutation.
3.3 Reduction in RyR1 Amount
The description of patients with mutations affecting RyR1 expression level has led to the most recent pathophysiological mechanism hypothesized (Monnier et al. 2008; Zhou et al. 2006). This mechanism is mostly associated to recessive forms, i.e., with two simultaneous RyR1 mutations. In this case, the presence of a “null” mutation (resulting in the complete absence of protein production from one allele) leads to the expression of the second RyR1 variation in a hemizygous context. The severity of the pathology in such a case depends on the nature of the expressed second mutation as well as on the residual expression level of the hypomorphic allele. In these patients, all the RyR1 expressed at the protein level could be mutated, as there is only one allele able to produce a protein. Therefore there is not only a reduction in the amount of channel expressed in the SR membrane, but also the expression of mutant RyR1 monomer in high proportion. This elevated percentage of mutant monomer can be very damaging, although its impact would have been milder if expressed together with a normal RyR1 allele. The overall reduction in RyR1 expression level could also have an impact on the stoichiometry of proteins of the CRC and its function. If the expression level of regulatory proteins (triadin, junctin, calmodulin…) is unchanged, reduced amounts of RyR1 could lead to an excess of these free regulatory proteins, which could have a negative effect on CRC function.
The tetrameric organization of RyR1 and its physical interaction with DHPR add complexity to the interpretation of the effect of mutations. The balance of combinations between normal or mutant monomers of RyR1 arising from dominant forms of myopathies, or between mutant monomers in recessive forms, is a factor that may influence the apparent discrepancy of clinical outcome and histological presentation for identical genotypes (MacLennan and Zvaritch 2011).
4 Conclusion
In the past decade, the class of pathologies involving RyR1 has expanded beyond its “classical” manifestation, MH, and CCD. While the complete analysis of RyR1 sequence became more accurate despite the complexity of the gene, it appeared that variations present on almost every exon of RYR1 could be associated to some form of myopathy. The heterogeneity of RyR1-related myopathies described so far may increase when routine massive parallel sequencing will be available in diagnosis, pointing to the necessity of understanding the intimate mechanisms leading to mis-regulation of calcium release in these pathologies. So far, the mouse models expressing some of the RyR1 mutations associated to human pathologies have confirmed important observations: morphologic alterations due to RyR1 mutation can have various forms, and structural abnormalities linked to different congenital myopathies (CCD, MmD, rods myopathies) could share the same etiology (MacLennan and Zvaritch 2011). These models, as well as future mice lines, will be pivotal in deciphering RyR1 pathophysiological mechanisms, together with cellular models reproducing the function of RyR1 in the calcium release complex. Although general mechanisms leading to RyR1 dysfunction seem to be understood, a detailed analysis of cellular and physiological models are still required to decipher the precise pathophysiology of RyR1-RCM. Several questions are in particular still unsolved such as: why is the characteristic feature of RyR1-RCM a depletion of mitochondria from focal zones of the muscle cells? Why are the myofibrillar apparatus of these cells also disorganized? How do the cellular default progress and why is the pathology usually not progressive?
Finally, it is tempting to speculate that if the RYR1 gene is associated to so many forms of muscle dysfunction due to calcium efflux dysregulation, it could also be associated to pathologies based on neuronal dysfunction. RyR1 is expressed in some neurons and recent data showed that a mutant form of RyR1 has indeed an impact on neuronal function (De Crescenzo et al. 2012). The future exploration of neuronal disorders with next generation sequencing technologies will probably provide new directions to explore in the pathophysiology of RyR1.
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