Schwartz Ketty, Mercadier Jean-Jacques
Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale ( INSERM) U582, Institut de Myologie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
J Clin Invest. 2003 Sep;112(5):652-4. doi: 10.1172/JCI19632.
It has long been noted that while patients with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy due to cardiac troponin T (cTnT) mutations often suffer sudden cardiac death, they do not develop significant ventricular hypertrophy, suggesting that a distinct cellular mechanism apart from alterations in myocardial contractility is responsible. A new study has revealed that a single missense mutation in cTnT causes a striking disruption to energy metabolism, leading to cardiomyopathy.
长期以来人们一直注意到,因心肌肌钙蛋白T(cTnT)突变导致家族性肥厚型心肌病的患者常遭遇心源性猝死,但他们并未出现明显的心室肥厚,这表明除心肌收缩性改变之外,还有一种独特的细胞机制在起作用。一项新研究表明,cTnT中的单个错义突变会对能量代谢造成显著破坏,进而导致心肌病。