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Vol. 278, Issue 6, C1108-C1115, June 2000

Skeletal muscle function and water permeability in aquaporin-4 deficient mice

Baoxue Yang1, Jean-Marc Verbavatz2, Yuanlin Song1, L. Vetrivel1, Geoffrey Manley1, Wei-Ming Kao1, Tonghui Ma1, and A. S. Verkman1

1 Departments of Medicine and Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0521; and 2 Service de Biologie Cellulaire, CEA/Saclay, Gif-sur Yvette, Cedex, F-91191 France

It has been proposed that aquaporin-4 (AQP4), a water channel expressed at the plasmalemma of skeletal muscle cells, is important in normal muscle physiology and in the pathophysiology of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. To test this hypothesis, muscle water permeability and function were compared in wild-type and AQP4 knockout mice. Immunofluorescence and freeze-fracture electron microscopy showed AQP4 protein expression in plasmalemma of fast-twitch skeletal muscle fibers of wild-type mice. Osmotic water permeability was measured in microdissected muscle fibers from the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) and fractionated membrane vesicles from EDL homogenates. With the use of spatial-filtering microscopy to measure osmotically induced volume changes in EDL fibers, half times (t1/2) for osmotic equilibration (7.5-8.5 s) were not affected by AQP4 deletion. Stopped-flow light-scattering measurements of osmotically induced volume changes in plasmalemma vesicles also showed no significant differences in water permeability. Similar water permeability, yet ~90% decreased AQP4 protein expression was found in EDL from mdx mice that lack dystrophin. Skeletal muscle function was measured by force generation in isolated EDL, treadmill performance time, and in vivo muscle swelling in response to water intoxication. No differences were found in EDL force generation after electrical stimulation [42 ± 2 (wild-type) vs. 41 ± 2 (knockout) g/s], treadmill performance time (22 vs. 26 min; 29 m/min, 13° incline), or muscle swelling (2.8 vs. 2.9% increased water content at 90 min after intraperitoneal water infusion). Together these results provide evidence against a significant role of AQP4 in skeletal muscle physiology in mice.

water channel; transgenic mice; muscular dystrophy; AQP4; orthogonal array


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