ArticleCell reports2014
Dominant lethal pathologies in male mice engineered to contain an X-linked DUX4 transgene.
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- p53-independent DUX4 pathology in cell and animal models of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.Disease models & mechanisms · 2017Pooled it
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- Iron supplementation alleviates pathologies in a mouse model of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025Article
- DUX4 at 25: how it emerged from "junk DNA" to become the cause of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.Skeletal muscle · 2025Review
- Estrogen rescues muscle regeneration impaired by DUX4 in a humanized xenograft mouse model.Cell death & disease · 2025Article
- Flavones provide resistance to DUX4-induced toxicity via an mTor-independent mechanism.Cell death & disease · 2023Article
- MATR3 is an endogenous inhibitor of DUX4 in FSHD muscular dystrophy.Cell reports · 2023Article
- Molecular and Phenotypic Changes in FLExDUX4 Mice.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Transplantation of PSC-derived myogenic progenitors counteracts disease phenotypes in FSHD mice.NPJ Regenerative medicine · 2022Article
- Persistent Fibroadipogenic Progenitor Expansion Following Transient DUX4 Expression Provokes a Profibrotic State in a Mouse Model for FSHD.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- RIPK3-mediated cell death is involved in DUX4-mediated toxicity in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2021Article
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- CRISPR/Cas correction of muscular dystrophies.Experimental cell research · 2021Article
- Pathomechanisms and biomarkers in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy: roles of DUX4 and PAX7.EMBO molecular medicine · 2021Review
- From Mice to Humans: An Overview of the Potentials and Limitations of Current Transgenic Mouse Models of Major Muscular Dystrophies and Congenital Myopathies.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Cellular and animal models for facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.Disease models & mechanisms · 2020Review
- Therapeutic Strategies Targeting DUX4 in FSHD.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Review
- Inhibition ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- Induction of a local muscular dystrophy using electroporation in vivo: an easy tool for screening therapeutics.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Congenital hearing impairment associated with peripheral cochlear nerve dysmyelination in glycosylation-deficient muscular dystrophy.PLoS genetics · 2020Article
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Abstract
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is an enigmatic disease associated with epigenetic alterations in the subtelomeric heterochromatin of the D4Z4 macrosatellite repeat. Each repeat unit encodes DUX4, a gene that is normally silent in most tissues. Besides muscular loss, most patients suffer retinal vascular telangiectasias. To generate an animal model, we introduced a doxycycline-inducible transgene encoding DUX4 and 3' genomic DNA into a euchromatic region of the mouse X chromosome. Without induction, DUX4 RNA was expressed at low levels in many tissues and animals displayed a variety of unexpected dominant leaky phenotypes, including male-specific lethality. Remarkably, rare live-born males expressed DUX4 RNA in the retina and presented a retinal vascular telangiectasia. By using doxycycline to induce DUX4 expression in satellite cells, we observed impaired myogenesis in vitro and in vivo. This mouse model, which shows pathologies due to FSHD-related D4Z4 sequences, is likely to be useful for testing anti-DUX4 therapies in FSHD.
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