Impaired glycogen breakdown and synthesis in phosphoglucomutase 1 deficiency

Nicolai Preisler, Jonathan Cohen, Christoffer Rasmus Vissing, Karen Lindhardt Madsen, Katja Heinicke, Lydia Jane Sharp, Lauren Phillips, Nadine Romain, Sun Young Park, Marta Newby, Phil Wyrick, Pedro Mancias, Henrik Galbo, John Vissing, Ronald Gerald Haller

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We investigated metabolism and physiological responses to exercise in an 18-year-old woman with multiple congenital abnormalities and exertional muscle fatigue, tightness, and rhabdomyolysis.

METHODS: We studied biochemistry in muscle and fibroblasts, performed mutation analysis, assessed physiological responses to forearm and cycle-ergometer exercise combined with stable-isotope techniques and indirect calorimetry, and evaluated the effect of IV glucose infusion and oral sucrose ingestion on the exercise response.

RESULTS: Phosphoglucomutase type 1 (PGM1) activity in muscle and fibroblasts was severely deficient and PGM1 in muscle was undetectable by Western blot. The patient was compound heterozygous for missense (R422W) and nonsense (Q530X) mutations in PGM1. Forearm exercise elicited no increase in lactate, but an exaggerated increase in ammonia, and provoked a forearm contracture. Comparable to patients with McArdle disease, the patient developed a 'second wind' with a spontaneous fall in exercise heart rate and perceived exertion. Like in McArdle disease, this was attributable to an increase in muscle oxidative capacity. Carbohydrate oxidation was blocked during exercise, and the patient had exaggerated oxidation of fat to fuel exercise. Exercise heart rate and perceived exertion were lower after IV glucose and oral sucrose. Muscle glycogen level was low normal.

CONCLUSIONS: The second wind phenomenon has been considered to be pathognomonic for McArdle disease, but we demonstrate that it can also be present in PGM1 deficiency. We show that severe loss of PGM1 activity causes blocked muscle glycogenolysis that mimics McArdle disease, but may also limit glycogen synthesis, which broadens the phenotypic spectrum of this disorder.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftMolecular Genetics and Metabolism
Vol/bind122
Udgave nummer3
Sider (fra-til)117-121
ISSN1096-7192
DOI
StatusUdgivet - nov. 2017

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