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  • Title: Adult-onset acid maltase deficiency. Morphologic and biochemical abnormalities reproduced in in cultured muscle.
    Author: Askanas V, Engel WK, DiMauro S, Brooks BR, Mehler M.
    Journal: N Engl J Med; 1976 Mar 11; 294(11):573-8. PubMed ID: 1060914.
    Abstract:
    We established muscle-tissue cultures from biopsy of a patient with adult-onset acid maltase deficiency. Morphologically and biochemically, the newly grown fibers of the cultured muscle showed the same abnormalities as those of the biopsied muscle. Light microscopy showed multiple vacuoles filled with acid-phosphatase-positive material; on ultrastructural examination there was abnormal accumulation of glycogen in membrane-bound sacs (secondary lysosomes), some of which also contained dark membranous of homogeneous material. Acid maltase (pH 4.0), a lysosomal enzyme, was undetectable in either cultured or biopsied muscle by maltose hydrolysis, whereas acid phosphatase, also a lysosomal enzyme, was increased in both sources of muscle cells. Cultured muscle fibers demonstrate the same morphologic and biochemical abnormalities characteristic of biopsied muscle, supporting the concept of a biochemically distinct primary myopathy in man.
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