A muscular hypotonia-associated STIM1 mutant at R429 induces abnormalities in intracellular Ca2+ movement and extracellular Ca2+ entry in skeletal muscle

Choi, Jun Hee; Huang, Mei; Hyun, Changdo; Oh, Mi Ri; Lee, Keon Jin; Cho, Chung-Hyun; Lee, Eun Hui

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A muscular hypotonia-associated STIM1 mutant at R429 induces abnormalities in intracellular Ca²⁺ movement and extracellular Ca²⁺ entry in skeletal muscle

Jun Hee Choi^1,2^na1,
Mei Huang ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0117-8604^1,2^na1,
Changdo Hyun^1,2,
Mi Ri Oh^1,2,
Keon Jin Lee^1,2,
Chung-Hyun Cho³ &
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Eun Hui Lee^1,2

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Abstract

Stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1) mediates extracellular Ca²⁺ entry into the cytosol through a store-operated Ca²⁺ entry (SOCE) mechanism, which is involved in the physiological functions of various tissues, including skeletal muscle. STIM1 is also associated with skeletal muscle diseases, but its pathological mechanisms have not been well addressed. The present study focused on examining the pathological mechanism(s) of a mutant STIM1 (R429C) that causes human muscular hypotonia. R429C was expressed in mouse primary skeletal myotubes, and the properties of the skeletal myotubes were examined using single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging of myotubes and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) along with biochemical approaches. R429C did not interfere with the terminal differentiation of myoblasts to myotubes. Unlike wild-type STIM1, there was no further increase of SOCE by R429C. R429C bound to endogenous STIM1 and slowed down the initial rate of SOCE that were mediated by endogenous STIM1. Moreover, R429C increased intracellular Ca²⁺ movement in response to membrane depolarization by eliminating the attenuation on dihydropyridine receptor-ryanodine receptor (DHPR-RyR1) coupling by endogenous STIM1. The cytosolic Ca²⁺ level was also increased due to the reduction in SR Ca²⁺ level. In addition, R429C-expressing myotubes showed abnormalities in mitochondrial shape, a significant decrease in ATP levels, and the higher expression levels of mitochondrial fission-mediating proteins. Therefore, serial defects in SOCE, intracellular Ca²⁺ movement, and cytosolic Ca²⁺ level along with mitochondrial abnormalities in shape and ATP level could be a pathological mechanism of R429C for human skeletal muscular hypotonia. This study also suggests a novel clue that STIM1 in skeletal muscle could be related to mitochondria via regulating intra and extracellular Ca²⁺ movements.

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Introduction

Excitation-contraction (EC) coupling is a prerequisite for skeletal muscle contraction^1,2,3. During skeletal EC coupling, action potential in mature skeletal muscle cells by neural stimulation reaches transverse (t)-tubule. The action potential activates dihydropyridine receptors (DHPRs, voltage-gated Ca²⁺ channels (Ca_v1.1.)) in the t-tubule membrane. Ryanodine receptor 1 molecules (RyR1s, internal Ca²⁺ channels) on the membrane of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR, corresponding to ER in other cell types) are subsequently opened due to the physical interactions with the active DHPRs (i.e., DHPR-RyR1 coupling), which represents a key step in inducing intracellular Ca²⁺ movement that is required for skeletal muscle contraction. These interactions allow Ca²⁺ movement from the SR to the cytosol through RyR1s (i.e., intracellular Ca²⁺ movement). The Ca²⁺ ions from the SR are major sources of Ca²⁺ for skeletal muscle contraction and serve as critical switches that turn on cross-bridge cycles of skeletal muscle. Relaxation of skeletal muscle involves Ca²⁺-reuptake from the cytosol to the SR^2,3,4. Sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase (SERCA) is responsible for Ca²⁺-reuptake and SERCA1a is the major adult isoform^1,2,3,4. The efficient arrangement of DHPR, RyR1, SERCA1a, and their regulatory proteins in a triad junction is crucial for their proper functions and intermolecular interactions^2,3. Junctophilin (JP) and mitsugumin 29 (MG29) participate in the development of the triad junction during the terminal differentiation of myoblasts (proliferative forms of satellite cells) to myotubes (mature forms of skeletal muscle cells) in the tissue^2,3,5,6. Various myogenic factors exert their influence to different stages of terminal differentiation, such as a higher expression level of myogenin or myosin heavy chain (MHC) and a lower expression level of MyoD at the late stage of terminal differentiation^7,8. Overall, spatiotemporal distributions of intracellular Ca²⁺ ions, timely expression of myogenic factors, proper positioning of the proteins mentioned above in the triad junction of skeletal muscle are important factors for contraction and relaxation. A failure at any point induces defective skeletal muscle function such as life-threatening malignant hyperthermia⁹.

Store-operated Ca²⁺ entry (SOCE) is a Ca²⁺ entryway for the sustained presence of Ca²⁺ in the cytosol to achieve strong and durable cytosolic Ca²⁺ signals in most cell types^10,11,12. The main SOCE-mediating proteins are stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1, a Ca²⁺ sensor) in the ER membrane and Orai1 (an extracellular Ca²⁺ entry channel) in the plasma membrane^10,11,12. During SOCE, STIM1 senses the waste of Ca²⁺ in the ER (i.e., ER depletion). This event allows the movement of STIM1s to the ER membranes that are close to the plasma membranes where STIM1s interact with Orai1s to form puncta^{13,14,15,16,17}. During the formation of puncta, STIM1 self-oligomerizes via its EF–sterile α-motif (EF-SAM) domain, first coiled-coil (CC) domain, and/or Ca²⁺ release-activated Ca²⁺-activating domain (CAD)^15,16. Punctum formation activates the entry of extracellular Ca²⁺ through Orai1 into the cytosol. The cytosolic Ca²⁺ level that is elevated by SOCE returns to a normal level via the import of cytosolic Ca²⁺ to the SR by SERCAs or the export of cytosolic Ca²⁺ to the extracellular area by plasma membrane Ca²⁺ ATPases (so called PMCAs)¹⁸. In skeletal muscle, interestingly, puncta appear during the terminal differentiation in an SR depletion-independent manner^12,19,20. This is the reason for a more rapid SOCE in skeletal muscle than in other cells types. In addition to the main role of Orai1 in SOCE^2,21, canonical-type transient receptor potential cation channels (TRPCs) participate in SOCE-mediated Ca²⁺ entry in skeletal muscle^22,23,24. Skeletal muscle expresses TRPC1, TRPC3, TRPC4, and TRPC6²⁵. Interestingly, STIM1 plays other important roles in skeletal muscle. Via a direct interaction to DHPR, STIM1 attenuates DHPR-RyR1 coupling that is required for skeletal muscle contraction²⁰. Similarly, suppressive activity of STIM1 on another type of voltage-gated Ca²⁺ channel (Ca_v1.2) has been reported²⁶. STIM1 is also participates in maintaining the full activity of SERCA1a for the relaxation of skeletal muscle²⁷.

The conditional deletion of STIM1 in mouse skeletal muscle results in no mediation of SOCE, rapid fatigue, and perinatal death from skeletal myopathy²⁸. Muscle fibres from a mdx mouse (an animal model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy) show increases in SOCE as well as STIM1 expression^29,30. Patients with mutations in STIM1 show the following pathological skeletal muscle conditions: congenital and global muscular hypotonia showing a decrease in muscle tone and progressive muscular dystrophy by a loss-of-function mutation (E136X)^20,31,32, muscular atrophy, tubular aggregate myopathy, and/or progressive muscle weakness by STIM1 missense mutations (H72Q, D84G, H109N or H109R)^20,33. A point mutation at R429 of STIM1 (R429C) has been reported in human patients with insufficient immunity and muscular hypotonia³⁴. The abolishment of SOCE by the presence of R429C in T cells is thought to cause insufficient immunity in patients^34,35. However, the pathological mechanism(s) of muscular hypotonia in patients with R429C have not yet been well addressed. Considering that various mutations in STIM1 cause the human skeletal muscle diseases mentioned above, examining the pathological effect(s) of R429C on the major functions of skeletal muscle, such as intracellular Ca²⁺ movement, which is needed for skeletal muscle contraction, is important and helpful in understanding the multiple physiological roles of STIM1 in skeletal muscle.

Results

R429C also does not mediate SOCE in skeletal myotubes

To study the pathological role(s) of R429C in skeletal muscle (Fig. 1a), R429C was expressed in mouse primary skeletal myotubes rather than in heterologous expression systems in order to avoid possible artefacts introduced by the cell system (Fig. 1b). To evaluate the degree of terminal differentiation of myoblasts to myotubes, mRNA levels of myogenic factors such as MyoD, myogenin, and MHC in the myotubes were examined using quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) (Fig. 1c). Myotubes that were transfected with empty vector were used as a control (also for subsequent experiments). There was no considerable difference in their mRNA levels by the expression of R429C. In addition, the width of myotubes (i.e., representing the degree of terminal differentiation) was measured (Fig. 1d). No significant difference was induced in the widths of myotubes by the expression of R429C. Therefore R429C-expressing myotubes did not show a significant difference in myotube formation compared with the vector control or wild-type STIM1. This suggests that STIM1 is not a critical protein for the terminal differentiation of skeletal muscle.

To examine the effect of R429C on SOCE in skeletal muscle, Ca²⁺ in the SR of R429C-expressing myotubes was depleted with thapsigargin (TG) in the absence of extracellular Ca²⁺ to avoid extracellular Ca²⁺ entry during depletion, and extracellular Ca²⁺ was then applied to the myotubes to measure SOCE. Wild-type STIM1 enhanced SOCE. However, SOCE was not enhanced by R429C, suggesting that R429C does not mediate SOCE in skeletal muscle (Fig. 2a, left histograms and Table 1), as was previously found in a heterologous expression system (HEK293 cells)³⁵.

Table 1 Properties of skeletal myotubes expressing wild-type STIM1 or R429C.

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Interestingly, R429C-expressing myotubes showed another property. The slope at the rising phase of SOCE in R429C-expressing myotubes was significantly less steep (i.e., slower rising) than those in control or wild-type STIM1 (Fig. 2a, right histograms and Table 1). Considering that R429C does not mediate SOCE, the less steep slope of SOCE means that SOCE by endogenous STIM1 (i.e., endogenous SOCE) was also affected by R429C. According to the previous reports that STIM1 forms oligomers during SOCE, the binding ability of R429C to endogenous STIM1 was examined by co-immunoprecipitation assay using the lysate from R429C-expressing myotubes (Fig. 2b). R429C was significantly co-immunoprecipitated with endogenous STIM1. This result supports that R429C could slow down the initial rate of endogenous SOCE by binding to endogenous STIM1, which is a dominant-negative effect of the R429C mutant over endogenous STIM1. CFP tag itself did not bind to endogenous STIM1 (Supplementary Fig. S1). Therefore these results suggest that R429 of STIM1 is a critical residue for the mediation of SOCE in skeletal muscle.

To assess the expression level of seven proteins that mediate or regulate SOCE in skeletal muscle, immunoblot assays were conducted with the lysate of R429C-expressing myotubes (Fig. 2c). There was no significant change in the expression level of endogenous STIM1 or STIM2. Interestingly the expression of endogenous Orai1 was increased by R429C, despite no mediation of SOCE by R429C. Therefore, no mediation of SOCE by R429C was not due to a simple decrease in the expression level of endogenous STIM1, STIM2, or Orai1. There was no significant change in the expression level of tripartite motif-containing protein 32 (TRIM32) that controls myogenic differentiation via regulating c-Myc and is related to human limb-girdle muscular dystrophy 2 H^36,37,38. In addition, there was also no significant change in the expression level of TRPC1, TRPC3, TRPC4, or TRPC6, which are known to mediate extracellular Ca²⁺ entry in skeletal muscle (Supplementary Fig. S2). The expression levels of other Ca²⁺-related proteins in skeletal muscle, such as JP1, JP2, MG29, calsequestrin 1, MG53, or calmodulin 1, were also not significantly changed (Fig. 2c and Supplementary Fig. S2). These results suggest that neither the increase in intracellular Ca²⁺ movement nor no enhancement of SOCE in R429C-expressing myotubes was caused by a change in the expression level of proteins that mediate or regulate skeletal muscle function but were instead due to the mutation at R429.

R429C increases intracellular Ca²⁺ movement by eliminating the attenuation on DHPR-RyR1 coupling by endogenous STIM1 in skeletal myotubes

Based on our previous report that STIM1 attenuates DHPR-RyR1 coupling required for skeletal muscle contraction by binding to DHPR²⁰, the binding ability of R429C to DHPR was examined by co-immunoprecipitation assay using lysate from R429C-expressing myotubes (Fig. 3a and Supplementary Fig. S3). R429C did not bind to DHPR. Considering the interaction between R429C and endogenous STIM1 in Fig. 2b, it is possible that the attenuation of DHPR-RyR1 coupling by endogenous STIM1 is eliminated by the interaction between R429C and endogenous STIM1.

To test this possibility, a membrane depolarizer (KCl) that induces membrane depolarization such as the one during EC coupling was applied to R429C-expressing myotubes, and intracellular Ca²⁺ movements from the SR to the cytosol through RyR1 were measured using single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging of myotubes. Intracellular Ca²⁺ movement in response to membrane depolarization in skeletal myotubes mimics intracellular Ca²⁺ movement required for skeletal muscle contraction. As shown in our previous report²⁰, wild-type STIM1 induced a significant decrease in Ca²⁺ movement in response to membrane depolarization compared with that in the control due to the attenuation of DHPR-RyR1 coupling by wild-type STIM1 (Fig. 3b and Table 1). However, R429C increased Ca²⁺ movement in response to membrane depolarization. This supports the theory that the attenuation of DHPR-RyR1 coupling by endogenous STIM1 is eliminated by R429C, which is a dominant-negative effect of the R429C mutant over endogenous STIM1.

It is possible that the increase in intracellular Ca²⁺ movement by R429C was simply due to a change in RyR1 activity rather than a change in DHPR-RyR1 coupling. To examine this scenario, RyR1 activity was assessed by applying a direct agonist of RyR1 (caffeine³⁹) to R429C-expressing myotubes (Fig. 3c and Table 1). Ca²⁺ movement in response to caffeine was not significantly changed by R429C, suggesting that the overall activity of RyR1 was not changed by R429C. Therefore, the possible change in RyR1 activity was ruled out. In addition, the possibility that an increase or decrease in the expression level of DHPR, RyR1, or SERCA1a as the cause of the increase in Ca²⁺ movement by R429C was also ruled out (Fig. 3d, no significant changes in the expression levels).

R429C elevates the cytosolic Ca²⁺ level and induces mitochondrial abnormalities in skeletal myotubes

To examine the aftereffects of no mediation of SOCE and the increase in intracellular Ca²⁺ movement by R429C, first, the cytosolic Ca²⁺ level at rest was measured in R429C-expressing myotubes (Fig. 4a and Table 1). Cytosolic Ca²⁺ levels were significantly increased by R429C. To address the reason for this increase, the releasable Ca²⁺ from the SR (which allows estimation of the Ca²⁺ level in the SR) was measured by depleting the SR with TG in the absence of extracellular Ca²⁺ (Fig. 4b and Table 1). The absence of extracellular Ca²⁺ allows an assessment of releasable Ca²⁺ exclusively from the SR without extracellular Ca²⁺ entry during SR depletion. Interestingly, the Ca²⁺ level in the SR was significantly decreased by R429C, without a significant change in the total cellular Ca²⁺ level (Fig. 4c and Table 1). Therefore, the increase in the cytosolic Ca²⁺ level by R429C could be mainly due to the reduction in Ca²⁺ in the SR.

To assess the effect of the increases in intracellular Ca²⁺ movement and cytosolic Ca²⁺ levels by R429C on other aspects, R429C-expressing myotubes were observed by TEM. Dramatic abnormalities in the shape of mitochondria were found in R429C-expressing myotubes. Mitochondria with onion-shaped cristae were frequently observed (i.e., the enlargement and whirling of mitochondrial membranes, indicated by black arrows in the enlarged image 3 in Fig. 5a). In addition, the length of mitochondria with normal shapes (except for mitochondria with onion-shaped cristae) was significantly reduced by R429C (Fig. 5b and Table 2). Representative small mitochondria are indicated by black double arrowheads in the enlarged image 3 of Fig. 5a.

Table 2 Properties of mitochondria in R429C-expressing myotubes.

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To evaluate how the abnormalities in mitochondrial shape and length by R429C affect the function of mitochondria, the ATP level of R429C-expressing myotubes was measured using the lysate of R429C-expressing myotubes (Fig. 5c and Table 2). In agreement with the abnormalities in mitochondrial shape and length, the ATP level was dramatically reduced by R429C.

To examine the cause of the appearance of small mitochondria in R429C-expressing myotubes, the expression level of proteins that mediate mitochondrial fusion or fission was examined by immunoblot assays using the lysate of R429C-expressing myotubes. The expression of dynamin-1-like protein (Drp-1) that mediates mitochondrial fission was increased by R429C (Fig. 5d and Table 2). However, the expression of fusion-mediating mitofusin-1 (Mfn1) was decreased. In addition, the expression levels of calcineurin and Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) that are known to activate Drp-1 by dephosphorylating or phosphorylating Drp-1, respectively, were examined. Expressions of both calcineurin and CaMKII were also increased by R429C (Fig. 5e and Table 2).

Discussion

We found that R429C did not significantly affect the formation of skeletal myotubes during terminal differentiation (Fig. 1), suggesting that defects in myotube formations are not related to the human muscular hypotonia caused by R429C. This finding is in accordance with our previous reports showing no significant changes in myotube formations by knocking down either STIM1 or STIM2 (a major isoform of STIM1)^20,27,40. Therefore these results suggest that STIM1 is not essential for the terminal differentiation of skeletal muscle. However, considering that STIM1 and STIM2 are functionally redundant in terms of terminal differentiation^41,42,43,44, it is still possible that it plays a supportive role in this process.

In the present study, R429C bound to endogenous STIM1 (Fig. 2b), suggesting that R429C could oligomerize with endogenous STIM1. The oligomerization could affect two different events. First, the oligomerization could induce a slower activation of endogenous SOCE in R429C-expressing myotubes by interfering with the binding between endogenous STIM1 and Orai1 (as shown in Fig. 2a). Considering that effective oligomers of STIM1 to mediate SOCE are thought to be tetramers, hexamers, or other even-numbered oligomers⁴⁵ and that the influence of R429C on endogenous SOCE was only found in the initiation phase of endogenous SOCE (but not in steady-state phase of endogenous SOCE), it is likely that the proportion of R429C to endogenous STIM1 in the oligomers is low. Second, the oligomerization could interfere with the binding between endogenous STIM1 and DHPR, which could remove the attenuation on DHPR-RyR1 coupling by endogenous STIM1 and result in the increase of intracellular Ca²⁺ movement in response to KCl in R429C-expressing myotubes (as shown in Fig. 3b). In addition, R429C showed homo-dimerization (Supplementary Fig. S4), suggesting that the oligomerization ability of STIM1 is not affected by the mutation at R429.

As previously reported³⁵, R429C also does not mediate SOCE in skeletal myotubes. R429 is one of the residues of CC domain of STIM1 (Fig. 1a). It has been suggested that the destabilization of an α-helix in the CC3 domain by the mutation of R429 causes failure to bind to Orai1, which abolishes SOCE and subsequently causes insufficient immunity in human patients with R429C (i.e., a loss-of-function mutant)³⁵. This could be a pathogenic factor in the human muscular hypotonia caused by R429C. However, considering that the Ca²⁺ entry mediated by SOCE plays a secondary role in skeletal muscle contraction, namely, not in the initiation but in the maintenance of the contraction^22,23,24, a defect in SOCE by R429C is not fully responsible for the pathological mechanism of human muscular hypotonia associated with R429C.

Knock down of STIM1 in skeletal myotubes increases intracellular Ca²⁺ movement required for skeletal muscle contraction²⁰, which is similar to the effect of R429C. However, unlike the knock down of STIM1, R429C induced abnormal intracellular Ca²⁺ distribution between the cytosol and the SR (higher Ca²⁺ levels in the cytosol and lower Ca²⁺ levels in the SR, Fig. 4) and increased the expression of Orai1 (Fig. 2c). Therefore, these differences suggest that in skeletal muscle, R429C is not only a loss-of-function but also a disease-causing mutant with a unique mechanism. The increase in cytosolic Ca²⁺ level could be a compensatory action for no mediation of SOCE by R429C, i.e., for the maintenance of the Ca²⁺ supply to the cytosol in response to no mediation of SOCE by R429C. The increased expression level of Orai1 by R429C (Fig. 2c) could be an attempt to compensate for no mediation of SOCE by R429C, although it was ineffective (Fig. 2a). The elimination of the attenuation of endogenous STIM1 on DHPR-RyR1 coupling by R429C (i.e., the increase of intracellular Ca²⁺ movement in response to KCl in Fig. 3b) could also contribute to the increase in the cytosolic Ca²⁺ levels and the reduction in Ca²⁺ amount in the SR. STIM2 attenuates SERCA1a activity during skeletal muscle contraction⁴⁰, which is in a tug-of war relationship with STIM1 that activates SERCA1a activity and allows fine-regulations of SERCA1a activity in skeletal muscle²⁷. In the present study, the expression level of STIM1 or STIM2 is not significantly changed by R429C (Fig. 2c) and R429 of STIM1 is not related to the binding region of STIM1 to SERCA1a^27,40. Therefore it is likely that SERCA1a activity is not related to the changes in the higher level of cytosolic Ca²⁺ or the reduction of Ca²⁺ amount in the SR by R429C.

Despite of the dominant-negative effects of R429C over endogenous STIM1, the overall activity of RyR1 was not changed by R429C (Fig. 3c). It has been well-known that micromolar Ca²⁺ in the cytosol acts as an agonist of RyR1 by triggering Ca²⁺-induced Ca²⁺ release (CICR)^4,46. Higher cytosolic Ca²⁺ level increases caffeine-sensitivity of RyR1^39,47. In the present study, cytosolic Ca²⁺ level was increased by R429C (Fig. 4a), which allows an assumption that a higher activity of RyR1 in response to caffeine is possible. However, a reduction in the Ca²⁺ amount in the SR was also induced by R429C (Fig. 4b) and less amount of Ca²⁺ in the SR is usually favorable for a lower activity of RyR1^1,48. It seems that a balance between these two opposite but possible events could result in no significant change in the overall activity of RyR1, as shown in Fig. 3c. This suggests that RyR1 activity in the presence of R429C could be dual-regulated by both Ca²⁺ in the SR and cytosol.

In the present study, dramatic changes in the mitochondria of skeletal myotubes were induced by R429C. First, R429C caused ultra-structural defects in mitochondria (Fig. 5a), namely, onion-shaped cristae (approximately 15~20% of the total mitochondria), also called ‘tubular parallel cristae’ or ‘concentric laminated bodies’⁴⁹. Mitochondria with onion-shaped cristae have also been reported in the skeletal and cardiac muscle of human patients with cardiomyopathy and chronic congestive heart failure⁵⁰. Second, R429C induced a significant decrease in ATP levels. ATP synthase in mitochondria forms long rows of dimers on tightly curved cristae ridges⁵¹. The onion-shaped cristae have no tightly curved ridges (Fig. 5a)⁵². Therefore, it is plausible that the lack of tightly curved ridges in the onion-shaped cristae could be the reason for the reduction in ATP levels. Third, the length of mitochondria with normal shapes was reduced by R429C. Additionally, the expression of Drp-1^53,54, calcineurin⁵⁵, or CaMKII⁵⁶ that mediates mitochondrial fission or activates Drp-1 was increased by R429C. However, the expression of fusion-mediating Mfn1⁵⁷ was decreased. Mitochondrial dysfunctions have been found in other skeletal myopathies, such as congenital muscular dystrophy⁵⁸ and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy⁵⁹, and in mdx mice^30,60. However, there has been no report of a link between STIM1 and mitochondrial dysfunctions, with the notable exception of SOCE. Therefore this study results suggest a new clue that mitochondrial fusion and fission in skeletal muscle could be related to the STIM1-mediated intracellular Ca²⁺ movement and SOCE.

In conclusion, in skeletal muscle, STIM1 could regulate intracellular Ca²⁺ movement as well as SOCE. Serial Ca²⁺-related defects, such as no mediation of SOCE, increased intracellular Ca²⁺ movement for skeletal muscle contraction, and increased cytosolic Ca²⁺ levels along with mitochondrial abnormalities in shape and ATP level cause human skeletal muscular hypotonia. These phenomena could constitute a unique pathologic mechanism of skeletal muscular hypotonia in patients who possess R429C (depicted in Fig. 6).

Materials and Methods

Ethical approval

The methods were carried out in accordance with the guidelines and regulations of the College of Medicine at The Catholic University of Korea. All surgical interventions, including pre- and post-surgical animal care and the site where the animal work has taken place, were carried out in accordance with the Laboratory Animals Welfare Act, the Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, and the Guidelines and Policies for Rodent Survival Surgery approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the College of Medicine at The Catholic University of Korea. All experimental protocols were approved by the Committee of the College of Medicine at The Catholic University of Korea.

cDNA construction

The mutation of R429 of STIM1 to C (R429C) was carried out using a site-directed mutagenesis kit (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A.), human STIM1 cDNA as a template (GenBank accession number: NM_003156.3), and a pair of complementary synthetic oligonucleotide primers containing the desired mutation (forward primer, 5′-CATTGCGGGAGCGCCTGCACTGCTGGCAACAGATC-3′; reverse primer, 5′-GATCTGTTGCCAGCAGTGCAGGCGCTCCCGCAATG-3′)^6,20,61.

Cell culture and the expression of R429C

Mouse primary skeletal myoblasts were derived from mouse skeletal muscle using a single-cell cloning method and were expanded and differentiated to myotubes, as previously described^20,61,62,63. For the differentiation of skeletal myoblasts to myotubes, the myoblasts were re-plated on 96-well plates (for single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging of myotubes), on 6-well plates (for mitochondria observations), or on 10-cm plates (for other experiments) coated with Matrigel (BD Biosciences, Sparks Glencoe, MD, U.S.A.). After three days of culture in differentiation conditions, premature myotubes were transfected with an empty vector or cDNA encoding wild-type STIM1 or R429C (a mixture of 30 µl of FuGENE6 (Promega, Madison, WI, U.S.A.) and 20 μg of cDNA per 10-cm dish, or the same ratio of components in the well of other plates) for 3 hr. Mature myotubes were either imaged, observed, or disrupted at 36 hr post-transfection for further experiments, at which time approximately 60% of the myotubes had been transfected, as estimated by the CFP signal. All reagents for the cell cultures were obtained from Invitrogen (Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, U.S.A.).

Co-immunoprecipitation and immunoblot assays

Mouse primary skeletal myotubes were solubilized in lysis buffer, as previously described^{6,20,27,40,63,64}. For the co-immunoprecipitation assay^20,40,63, solubilized myotube lysate (80 or 100 µg of total protein) was used. The immunoprecipitate was subjected to immunoblot assays with anti-DHPR, anti-STIM1, or anti-GFP antibody (Abcam, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A., for detecting CFP-R429C). For the immunoblot assays, the solubilized myotube lysate (10 μg of total protein) was subjected to SDS-PAGE (8, 10, or 12% gel)^{6,20,27,40,63,64}. Anti-RyR1, anti-SERCA1a, anti-CSQ1, anti-CaM1, anti-MG29, anti-MG53, anti-JP1, and anti-JP2 antibodies were obtained from Affinity BioReagents (Golden, CO, U.S.A.). Anti-TRPC1, anti-TRPC3, anti-TRPC4, and anti-TRPC6 antibodies were obtained from Alomone Laboratories (Jerusalem, Israel). Anti-Orai1, anti-STIM1, anti-STIM2, and anti-α-actin antibodies were obtained from Abcam. Anti-Drp-1, anti-Mfn1, anti-calcineurin and anti-CaMKII antibodies were obtained from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Paso Robles, CA, U.S.A.).

qRT-PCR

Total RNA was obtained from myotubes. cDNAs were synthesized from the total RNA, as previously described⁶⁵. qRT-PCR was performed using the following primers: MyoD (forward: 5′-GACCTGCGCTTTTTTGAGGACC-3′ and reverse: 5′-CAGGCCCACAGCAAGCAGCGAC-3′); myogenin (forward: 5′-TTGCTCAGCTCCCTCAACCAGGA-3′ and reverse: 5′- TGCAGATTGTGGGCGTCTGTAGG-3′); MHC (type II) (forward: 5′-GGCCAAAATCAAAGAGGTGA-3′ and reverse: 5′-CGTGCTTCTCCTTCTCAACC-3′); and GAPDH as a control (forward: 5′-AGGTCGGTGTGAACGGATTTG- 3′ and reverse: 5′-TGTAGACCATGTAGTTGAGGTCA-3′). A SYBR Green PCR kit with Taq DNA polymerase (Cosmo Genetech, Seoul, Korea) was used with a PCR thermocycler (Bio-Rad CFX96, Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, U.S.A.). The PCR was conducted under the following conditions: denaturation at 94 °C for 10 sec, annealing at 58 °C for 10 sec, and extension at 62 °C for 15 sec. Samples of 20 ng cDNA were analyzed in triplicate. The obtained values were analyzed using a software (CFX manager Ver. 3.1, Bio-Rad), normalized to GAPDH, and presented as the fold-increase relative to the value of the control.

Single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging of myotubes

Single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging of myotubes experiments were performed using an inverted-stage microscope (Nikon Eclipse TS100, Nikon Instruments, Inc., Melville, NY, U.S.A.) equipped with a 40x oil-immersion objective (NA 1.30), a high-speed monochromator with a 75 W xenon lamp (FSM150Xe, Bentham Instruments, Reading, Berkshire, U.K.), and a 12-bit charge-coupled device camera (DVC-340M-OO-CL, Digital Video Camera Company, Austin, TX, U.S.A.). Mouse primary skeletal myotubes were loaded with 5 μM fura-2-AM (Invitrogen) for the measurement of cytosolic [Ca²⁺] or fluo-4-AM (Invitrogen) for other measurements in an imaging buffer (25 mM HEPES, pH 7.4, 125 mM NaCl, 5 mM KCl, 2 mM KH₂PO₄, 2 mM CaCl₂, 6 mM glucose, 1.2 mM MgSO₄, and 0.05% BSA) at 37 °C for 45 min, as previously described^{6,20,27,40,61,63,64}. Either KCl (60 mM) or caffeine (20 mM) was dissolved in the imaging buffer and applied to the myotubes via an auto-perfusion system (AutoMate Scientific, St. Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.). Before starting the single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging, images of myotubes were captured for size comparison (especially the width of myotubes). The data were displayed and analysed using image acquisition and analysis software (High-Speed InCyt Im1 and Im2, v5.29, Intracellular Imaging Inc., Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.). To measure releasable Ca²⁺ from the SR or total cellular Ca²⁺ level, TG (2.5 μM) or ionomycin (5 μM) dissolved in dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO, < 0.05%, no effect by itself) was applied to the myotubes, respectively, in the absence of extracellular Ca²⁺ to avoid the effect of extracellular Ca²⁺ entry. For the measurement of SOCE, Ca²⁺ in the SR was depleted with TG (2.5 μM) in the absence of extracellular Ca²⁺, and once the cytosolic Ca²⁺ level returned to baseline, 2 mM Ca²⁺ was added to the myotubes to measure SOCE. To analyse the Ca²⁺ movement obtained from single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging of myotubes, the peak amplitudes, which exhibited similar increases or decreases in peak areas, were measured. For long-term Ca²⁺ movements such as SOCE or the response to TG or ionomycin, the areas under the curves were analysed. To analyze the initial rate of SOCE, the slope at the rising phase of SOCE was examined by a linear equation that was obtained from a linear fitting of the rising phase of SOCE for initial 15 sec.^6,40,61,63. Reagents for single-cell Ca²⁺ imaging of myotubes were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.).

Width measurement

Measurements of the width in myotubes (one criterion that is used to evaluate the degree of skeletal myotube formation) were performed as previously described^{6,20,27,61,64}. The width at the thickest part of each myotube was measured using the ImageJ program software (http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/).

Immunocytochemistry and TEM

For immunocytochemistry assays, mouse primary skeletal myotubes were fixed in cold methanol (−20 °C) for 30 min and were permeabilized with 0.05% Tween 20 in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) for 1 min, as previously described^6,20,27,63. For TEM observations, the myotubes were fixed, embedded in epoxy resin (Epon 812), sectioned (70–80 nm) using an ultramicrotome (Ultracut UCT ultramicrotome, Leica, Buffalo Grove, IL, U.S.A.), and examined under TEM (JEM1010, JEOL Ltd., Peabody, MA, U.S.A.) at 60 kV, as previously described⁶. To analyse the length of mitochondria with normal, the length of mitochondria in a unit area (37.5 × 25.0 µm²) was measured using ImageJ software.

ATP measurement

The ATP level of the mouse primary skeletal myotubes was measured using myotube lysate and an ATP bioluminescence assay kit (BioVision, Milpitas, CA, U.S.A.) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Luminescence analysis was performed using a luminescence detector (SpectraMax L Microplate Reader and SoftMax Pro 5.4, Molecular Devices, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.).

Statistical analysis

The results are presented as the mean ± s.e.m. calculated for the number of myotubes shown in parentheses in the tables or in the figure legends. The values were normalized to the mean value of the corresponding controls, except for those of cytosolic [Ca²⁺], mean length of mitochondria and [ATP]. Group differences were analysed using an unpaired t-test (GraphPad InStat, v2.04, GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.). The differences were considered to be significant at p < 0.05. For qRT-PCR, the results are presented as the mean ± s.d. for triple experiments, and difference was considered to be considerable at more than 2-fold increase. The graphs were prepared using Origin v7 (OriginLab, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.).

Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

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This work was supported by the Mid-career Researcher Program through National Research Foundation of Korea grants (No. NRF-2017R1A2B4005924 and No. NRF-2019R1A2C1086858 to E.H.L.). We acknowledge Dr. Paul D. Allen (at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA, and now at St James’s University Hospital, Leeds, UK)’s invaluable discussion on the present study. We acknowledge the help of Dr. Hong Lim Kim for his great expertise in the TEM observations and Mr. Yeongmin Kim for his assistance in the laboratory.

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Choi, J.H., Huang, M., Hyun, C. et al. A muscular hypotonia-associated STIM1 mutant at R429 induces abnormalities in intracellular Ca²⁺ movement and extracellular Ca²⁺ entry in skeletal muscle. Sci Rep 9, 19140 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-55745-z

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