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Volume 17, Number 12, Issue of June 15, 1997 pp. 4662-4671
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience

Heterozygous Peripheral Myelin Protein 22-Deficient Mice Are Affected by a Progressive Demyelinating Tomaculous Neuropathy

Received Feb. 24, 1997; revised March 18, 1997; accepted April 8, 1997.

Katrin Adlkofer¹, Regula Frei¹, Dirk H.-H. Neuberg¹, Jürgen Zielasek², Klaus V. Toyka², and Ueli Suter¹

¹ Institute of Cell Biology, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland, and ² Department of Neurology, Julius-Maximilians-University, D-97080 Würzburg, Germany

Hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy (HNPP) is associated with a heterozygous 1.5 megabase deletion on chromosome 17 that includes the peripheral myelin protein (PMP) gene PMP22. We show that heterozygous PMP22 knock-out mice, which carry only one functional pmp22 allele and thus genetically mimic HNPP closely, display similar morphological and electrophysiological features as observed in HNPP nerves. As reported previously, focal hypermyelinating structures called tomacula, the pathological hallmarks of HNPP, develop progressively in young PMP22^+/0 mice. By following the fate of tomacula during aging, we demonstrate now that these mutant animals are also interesting models for examining HNPP disease mechanisms. Subtle electrophysiological abnormalities are detected in PMP22^+/0 mice >1 year old, and a significant number of abnormally swollen and degenerating tomacula are present. Thinly myelinated axons and supernumerary Schwann cells forming onion bulbs as fingerprints of repeated cycles of demyelination and remyelination are also encountered frequently. Quantitative analyses using electron microscopy on cross sections and light microscopy on single teased nerve fibers suggest that tomacula are intrinsically unstable structures that are prone to degeneration; however, the severity of morphological and electrophysiological abnormalities in PMP22^+/0 mice is variable. These combined findings are reminiscent of the disease progression in HNPP and offer a possible explanation about why some HNPP patients develop a chronic motor and sensory neuropathy later in life that resembles demyelinating forms of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease by both morphological and clinical criteria.

Key words: PMP22; peripheral myelin protein-22; peripheral neuropathy; myelin; Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease; CMT; hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies; HNPP; tomaculous neuropathy; demyelination

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