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Guitart M, Osorio-Conles Ó, Pentinat T, Cebrià J, García-Villoria J, Sala D, Sebastián D, Zorzano A, Ribes A, Jiménez-Chillarón JC, García-Martínez C, Gómez-Foix AM. Fatty acid transport protein 1 (FATP1) localizes in mitochondria in mouse skeletal muscle and regulates lipid and ketone body disposal. PLoS One 2014; 9:e98109. [PMID: 24858472 PMCID: PMC4032244 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2013] [Accepted: 04/29/2014] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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FATP1 mediates skeletal muscle cell fatty acid import, yet its intracellular localization and metabolic control role are not completely defined. Here, we examine FATP1 localization and metabolic effects of its overexpression in mouse skeletal muscle. The FATP1 protein was detected in mitochondrial and plasma membrane fractions, obtained by differential centrifugation, of mouse gastrocnemius muscle. FATP1 was most abundant in purified mitochondria, and in the outer membrane and soluble intermembrane, but not in the inner membrane plus matrix, enriched subfractions of purified mitochondria. Immunogold electron microscopy localized FATP1-GFP in mitochondria of transfected C2C12 myotubes. FATP1 was overexpressed in gastrocnemius mouse muscle, by adenovirus-mediated delivery of the gene into hindlimb muscles of newborn mice, fed after weaning a chow or high-fat diet. Compared to GFP delivery, FATP1 did not alter body weight, serum fed glucose, insulin and triglyceride levels, and whole-body glucose tolerance, in either diet. However, fatty acid levels were lower and β-hydroxybutyrate levels were higher in FATP1- than GFP-mice, irrespective of diet. Moreover, intramuscular triglyceride content was lower in FATP1- versus GFP-mice regardless of diet, and β-hydroxybutyrate content was unchanged in high-fat-fed mice. Electroporation-mediated FATP1 overexpression enhanced palmitate oxidation to CO2, but not to acid-soluble intermediate metabolites, while CO2 production from β-hydroxybutyrate was inhibited and that from glucose unchanged, in isolated mouse gastrocnemius strips. In summary, FATP1 was localized in mitochondria, in the outer membrane and intermembrane parts, of mouse skeletal muscle, what may be crucial for its metabolic effects. Overexpressed FATP1 enhanced disposal of both systemic fatty acids and intramuscular triglycerides. Consistently, it did not contribute to the high-fat diet-induced metabolic dysregulation. However, FATP1 lead to hyperketonemia, likely secondary to the sparing of ketone body oxidation by the enhanced oxidation of fatty acids.
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- Maria Guitart
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institut de Biomedicina de la UB, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institut de Biomedicina de la UB, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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- Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Endocrinology, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain
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- Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Endocrinology, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain
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- Sección de Errores Congénitos del Metabolismo (IBC), Servicio de Bioquímica y Genética Molecular, Hospital Clínico, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institut de Biomedicina de la UB, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institut de Biomedicina de la UB, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institut de Biomedicina de la UB, Barcelona, Spain
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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- Sección de Errores Congénitos del Metabolismo (IBC), Servicio de Bioquímica y Genética Molecular, Hospital Clínico, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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- Departament de Patologia i Terapèutica Experimental, UB, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Institut de Biomedicina de la UB, Barcelona, Spain
- CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas (CIBERDEM), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
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Guitart M, Andreu AL, García-Arumi E, Briones P, Quintana E, Gómez-Foix AM, García-Martínez C. FATP1 localizes to mitochondria and enhances pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in skeletal myotubes. Mitochondrion 2009; 9:266-72. [PMID: 19361580 DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2009.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2008] [Revised: 03/09/2009] [Accepted: 03/24/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Fatty acid transport protein 1 (FATP1) has been previously immunolocalized in intracellular compartments. Here we show that FATP1 localizes to the mitochondria in cultured myotubes, by immunoblots of subcellular fractions and immunocytology of the fusion protein FATP1-GFP. FATP1 strongly stimulates CO(2) production from glucose whereas nonmitochondrial metabolism of glucose is only slightly enhanced. FATP1 raises the activity and activates the pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex and the pyruvate decarboxylase PDH-E1 catalytic subunit, without changing E2, E3BP or E1alpha and increasing E1beta protein content. These data reveals the localization and points to a regulatory function of FATP1 in myotube mitochondria.
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- Maria Guitart
- Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular, Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, CIBER de Diabetes y Enfermedades Metabólicas Asociadas, IBUB, Diagonal, 645, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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Reisch AS, Elpeleg O. Biochemical assays for mitochondrial activity: assays of TCA cycle enzymes and PDHc. Methods Cell Biol 2007; 80:199-222. [PMID: 17445696 DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(06)80010-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Ann Saada Reisch
- The Metabolic Disease Unit, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
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Schwab MA, Kölker S, van den Heuvel LP, Sauer S, Wolf NI, Rating D, Hoffmann GF, Smeitink JAM, Okun JG. Optimized spectrophotometric assay for the completely activated pyruvate dehydrogenase complex in fibroblasts. Clin Chem 2004; 51:151-60. [PMID: 15550478 DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2004.033852] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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BACKGROUND Analysis of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc) activity in human skin fibroblasts is hampered by low enzyme activity in the cells. The most commonly used radiochemical method detects the formation of (14)CO(2), an endproduct of the E1 component of PDHc, from [1-(14)C]pyruvate. METHODS We report a spectrophotometric method for the analysis of PDHc activity in fibroblasts based on detection of NADH formation via a p-iodonitrotetrazolium violet (INT)-coupled system. We investigated in detail the specific requirements of this assay, such as cofactor requirements and the effects of suggested stimulatory compounds and different cell disruption procedures. The reliability of the optimized assay was studied by investigation of patients previously diagnosed with PDHc deficiency and by comparison with results from the radiochemical method. RESULTS Mean (SD) total PDHc activities were 136 (31) and 58 (21) mU/U of citrate synthase in fibroblast homogenates from 10 healthy volunteers and 7 PDHc-deficient patients, respectively, by the spectrophotometric assay. Similar results were obtained in a mitochondrial fraction. Dithiothreitol (DTT) increased the nonspecific inhibitor-insensitive rate with less pronounced effect on the specific rate of PDHc activity. Administration of DTT increased PDHc activity to 193 (3)% of control activity (without DTT), but decreased the inhibitor-sensitive rate from 99 (0.3)% (without DTT) to 69 (2)% (with 0.3 mmol/L DTT). CONCLUSION The simple, optimized spectrophotometric assay for PDHc analysis allows reliable investigation of the enzyme complex in human skin fibroblasts.
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- Marina A Schwab
- Division of Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases, University Children's Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Grafakou O, Hol FA, Otfried Schwab K, Siers MH, ter Laak H, Trijbels F, Ensenauer R, Boelen C, Smeitink J. Exercise intolerance, muscle pain and lactic acidaemia associated with a 7497G>A mutation in the tRNASer(UCN) gene. J Inherit Metab Dis 2003; 26:593-600. [PMID: 14605505 DOI: 10.1023/a:1025960300710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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A 13-year-old girl with non-familial exercise intolerance, muscle pain and lactic acidaemia underwent a muscle biopsy for suspected mitochondrial disease. Muscle morphology showed 25% ragged-red fibres and 80% COX-negative staining. Enzymatic activities of mitochondrially co-encoded respiratory chain enzymes (complexes I, III, and IV) were decreased in muscle but normal in cultured skin fibroblasts. mtDNA analysis revealed the presence of the 7497G>A mutation in the tRNASer(UCN) gene, homoplasmic in skeletal muscle and 90% in leukocytes. Analysis of the mother's mtDNA showed 10% heteroplasmy in blood. It may be concluded that the 7497G>A mutation is associated with a muscle-only disease presentation for which high levels of mutated mtDNA are required. Exercise intolerance and muscle pain in otherwise normal children warrants further mitochondrial evaluation.
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- O Grafakou
- Department of Pediatrics, Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders, University Medical Center Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Niers LE, Smeitink JA, Trijbels JM, Sengers RC, Janssen AJ, van den Heuvel LP. Prenatal diagnosis of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase deficiency. Prenat Diagn 2001; 21:871-80. [PMID: 11746133 DOI: 10.1002/pd.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain) deficiency is a severe disorder with an often early fatal outcome. Prenatal diagnosis for complex I defects currently relies mainly on biochemical assays of complex I in fetal tissues such as chorionic villi (CV), and is only in a minority of cases possible by means of mutational analysis of nuclear-encoded genes of complex I. We report on our experience to date with prenatal diagnosis in pregnancies at risk for complex I deficiency. We measured complex I activity in native CV and/or cultured CV in 23 pregnancies in 15 families. In accordance with the results of the investigations in CV, 15 children were born clinically unaffected. Two prenatally diagnosed unaffected fetuses and two prenatally diagnosed affected fetuses were lost prematurely with spontaneous or provoked abortions, respectively. Two affected children were born (prenatally found to be affected). In two pregnancies a discrepancy between native and cultured cells was found. We conclude that prenatal diagnosis for complex I deficiency can be reliably performed. Pitfalls were encountered in using cultured CV as a result of maternal cell contamination (MCC). Future research on pathogenic nuclear mutations underlying complex I deficiency will extend the possibilities for prenatal diagnosis at the molecular level.
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- L E Niers
- Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Loeffen J, Elpeleg O, Smeitink J, Smeets R, Stöckler-Ipsiroglu S, Mandel H, Sengers R, Trijbels F, van den Heuvel L. Mutations in the complex I NDUFS2 gene of patients with cardiomyopathy and encephalomyopathy. Ann Neurol 2001; 49:195-201. [PMID: 11220739 DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(20010201)49:2<195::aid-ana39>3.0.co;2-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 149] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Human complex I is built up and regulated by genes encoded by the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) as well as the nuclear DNA (nDNA). In recent years, attention mainly focused on the relation between complex I deficiency and mtDNA mutations. However, a high percentage of consanguinity and an autosomal-recessive mode of inheritance observed within our patient group as well as the absence of common mtDNA mutations make a nuclear genetic cause likely. The NDUFS2 protein is part of complex I of many pro- and eukaryotes. The nuclear gene coding for this protein is therefore an important candidate for mutational detection studies in enzymatic complex I deficient patients. Screening of patient NDUFS2 cDNA by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) in combination with direct DNA sequencing revealed three missense mutations resulting in the substitution of conserved amino acids in three families.
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- J Loeffen
- Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders, Department of Pediatrics, The Netherlands
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Loeffen JL, Smeitink JA, Trijbels JM, Janssen AJ, Triepels RH, Sengers RC, van den Heuvel LP. Isolated complex I deficiency in children: clinical, biochemical and genetic aspects. Hum Mutat 2000; 15:123-34. [PMID: 10649489 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1004(200002)15:2<123::aid-humu1>3.0.co;2-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 204] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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We retrospectively examined clinical and biochemical characteristics of 27 patients with isolated enzymatic complex I deficiency (established in cultured skin fibroblasts) in whom common pathogenic mtDNA point mutations and major rearrangements were absent. Clinical phenotypes present in this group are Leigh syndrome (n = 7), Leigh-like syndrome (n = 6), fatal infantile lactic acidosis (n = 3), neonatal cardiomyopathy with lactic acidosis (n = 3), macrocephaly with progressive leukodystrophy (n = 2), and a residual group of unspecified encephalomyopathy (n = 6) subdivided into progressive (n = 4) and stable (n = 2) variants. Isolated complex I deficiency is one of the most frequently observed disturbance of the OXPHOS system. Respiratory chain enzyme assays performed in cultured fibroblasts and skeletal muscle tissue in general reveal similar results, but for complete diagnostics we recommend enzyme measurements performed in at least two different tissues to minimize the possibility of overlooking the enzymatic diagnosis. Lactate levels in blood and CSF and cerebral CT/MRI studies are highly informative, although normal findings do not exclude complex I deficiency. With the discovery of mutations in nuclear encoded complex I subunits, adequate pre- and postnatal counseling becomes available. Finally, considering information currently available, isolated complex I deficiency in children seems to be caused in the majority by mutations in nuclear DNA.
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- J L Loeffen
- Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders (NCMD), Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Shany E, Saada A, Landau D, Shaag A, Hershkovitz E, Elpeleg ON. Lipoamide dehydrogenase deficiency due to a novel mutation in the interface domain. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999; 262:163-6. [PMID: 10448086 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.1133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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An infant with a neurodegenerative disorder accompanied by lactic acidemia is described. In muscle homogenate, the activity of lipoamide dehydrogenase (LAD), the third catalytic subunit of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHc), alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (KGDHc), and branched-chain keto acid dehydrogenase complex was reduced to 15% of the control. The activity of PDHc was undetectable and the activity of KGDHc was 2% of the control mean. The immunoreactive LAD protein was reduced to about 10% of the control. Direct sequencing of LAD cDNA revealed only one mutation, substituting Asp for Val at position 479 of the precursor form. The mutation resides within the interface domain and likely perturbs stable dimerization. The phenotypic heterogeneity in LAD deficiency is not directly correlated with the residual LAD activity but rather with its impact on the multienzymatic complex activity.
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- E Shany
- Neonatology and Pediatric Departments, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel
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Loeffen J, Smeitink J, Triepels R, Smeets R, Schuelke M, Sengers R, Trijbels F, Hamel B, Mullaart R, van den Heuvel L. The first nuclear-encoded complex I mutation in a patient with Leigh syndrome. Am J Hum Genet 1998; 63:1598-608. [PMID: 9837812 PMCID: PMC1377631 DOI: 10.1086/302154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 194] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH):ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) is the largest multiprotein enzyme complex of the respiratory chain. The nuclear-encoded NDUFS8 (TYKY) subunit of complex I is highly conserved among eukaryotes and prokaryotes and contains two 4Fe4S ferredoxin consensus patterns, which have long been thought to provide the binding site for the iron-sulfur cluster N-2. The NDUFS8 cDNA contains an open reading frame of 633 bp, coding for 210 amino acids. Cycle sequencing of amplified NDUFS8 cDNA of 20 patients with isolated enzymatic complex I deficiency revealed two compound heterozygous transitions in a patient with neuropathologically proven Leigh syndrome. The first mutation was a C236T (P79L), and the second mutation was a G305A (R102H). Both mutations were absent in 70 control alleles and cosegregated within the family. A progressive clinical phenotype proceeding to death in the first months of life was expressed in the patient. In the 19 other patients with enzymatic complex I deficiency, no mutations were found in the NDUFS8 cDNA. This article describes the first molecular genetic link between a nuclear-encoded subunit of complex I and Leigh syndrome.
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- J Loeffen
- Department of Pediatrics, Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders, The Netherlands
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Aptowitzer I, Saada A, Faber J, Kleid D, Elpeleg ON. Liver disease in the Ashkenazi-Jewish lipoamide dehydrogenase deficiency. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1997; 24:599-601. [PMID: 9161958 DOI: 10.1097/00005176-199705000-00019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- I Aptowitzer
- Department of Pediatrics, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Shaag A, Saada A, Steinberg A, Navon P, Elpeleg ON. Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy associated with a novel mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA(leu)(UUR) gene (A3243T). Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1997; 233:637-9. [PMID: 9168904 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.6496] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We report a new mutation, an A-->T transition at nt 3243 in the mitochondrial tRNA(leu)(UUR) gene, in a 9-year-old girl who presented with muscle weakness of 3 years duration complicated by rapidly progressive encephalopathy. In muscle, the activity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes I, III, and IV was markedly reduced. The mutation, involving a highly conserved base pair in the dihydrouridine loop, was heteroplasmic in muscle (81.4%), skin (69.3%), and blood (13.8%) and was not present in blood of 50 healthy individuals. The mitochondrial 3243 base is a "hot spot" for mutations; an A-->G transition at this position is found in a high proportion in most MELAS patients. Since the A-->T transition creates a new recognition site for the restriction enzyme TspRI, both ApaI and TspRI should be used to exclude a mutation at nt 3243.
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- A Shaag
- Metabolic Disease Unit, Shaare-Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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Sperl W, Ruitenbeek W, Kerkhof CM, Sengers RC, Trijbels JM, Guggenbichler JP, Janssen AJ, Bakkeren JA. Deficiency of the alpha and beta subunits of pyruvate dehydrogenase in a patient with lactic acidosis and unexpected sudden death. Eur J Pediatr 1990; 149:487-92. [PMID: 2189731 DOI: 10.1007/bf01959401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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An infant with moderate muscular hypotonia and congenital lactic acidosis died suddenly at the age of 3 months. Autopsy revealed no abnormalities responsible for this unexpected death. Measurement of mitochondrial enzymes involved in energy production indicated a severely decreased total pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) activity in muscle tissue (0.23 nmoles x min-1 x mg protein-1, control range 2.8-8.7) and moderately decreased PDHC activity in fibroblasts (0.27 nmoles x min-1 x mg protein-1, control range 0.37-2.32). The activity of the first component E1 (pyruvate dehydrogenase) in muscle tissue was 10 times lower than that of controls (0.008 nmoles x min-1 x mg protein-1, control range 0.10-0.25). The activities of dihydrolipoyl dehydrogenase (E3) and various other mitochondrial enzymes were normal. Immunochemical analysis in skeletal muscle tissue and fibroblasts demonstrated a decrease in the amount of the alpha and beta subunits of E1. The features of this patient are compared with those of other patients reported in the literature with immunochemically confirmed combined E1 alpha and beta deficiency.
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- W Sperl
- Department of Paediatrics, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Hurvitz H, Elpeleg ON, Barash V, Kerem E, Reifen RM, Ruitenbeek W, Mor C, Branski D. Glycogen storage disease, Fanconi nephropathy, abnormal galactose metabolism and mitochondrial myopathy. Eur J Pediatr 1989; 149:48-51. [PMID: 2606128 DOI: 10.1007/bf02024334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We present a 4-year-old male suffering from profound muscular weakness, enzymatically undefined glycogen storage disease. Fanconi nephropathy and impaired galactose utilization. Distorted mitochondria, intramitochondrial fat droplets and partial deficiencies of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, succinate: cytochrome c oxidoreductase, and cytochrome c oxidase have been found in muscle tissue. The causal relationship between mitochondrial myopathy, glycogen storage disease, Fanconi nephropathy and impaired utilization of galactose is discussed.
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- H Hurvitz
- Department of Paediatrics, Bikur-Cholim Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Sperl W, Ruitenbeek W, Trijbels JM, Sengers RC, Stadhouders AM, Guggenbichler JP. Mitochondrial myopathy with lactic acidaemia, Fanconi-De Toni-Debré syndrome and a disturbed succinate: cytochrome c oxidoreductase activity. Eur J Pediatr 1988; 147:418-21. [PMID: 2840289 DOI: 10.1007/bf00496424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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A patient with severe muscular hypotonia, failure to thrive, a metabolic acidosis and a renal tubular dysfunction is presented. The disease followed a fatal course. Blood lactate and pyruvate levels as well as lactate/pyruvate ratios were strongly elevated. There were a massive excretion of lactate in urine, a generalized hyperaminoaciduria, a proteinuria and a mellituria. The carnitine concentration was diminished in blood and muscle tissue. Biochemical investigations of skeletal muscle and liver tissue revealed a defect in the respiratory chain at the level of succinate: cytochrome c oxidoreductase. The defect could not be demonstrated in cultured fibroblasts.
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- W Sperl
- Childrens' Hospital, University of Innsbruck, Austria
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