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Bhatnagar V, Deffrennes M, Hugon M, Manolatos P, Ptackova K, Van Goethem G, Webster S. FISA-2009 Conference on Euratom Research and Training Activities: Nuclear Fission – Past, Present and Future (Generation-II, -III and -IV+Partitioning and Transmutation). Nuclear Engineering and Design 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2011.04.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Bohlega S, Van Goethem G, Al Semari A, Löfgren A, Al Hamed M, Van Broeckhoven C, Kambouris M. Novel Twinkle gene mutation in autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia and multisystem failure. Neuromuscul Disord 2009; 19:845-8. [PMID: 19853444 DOI: 10.1016/j.nmd.2009.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2009] [Revised: 08/29/2009] [Accepted: 10/02/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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A Saudi Arabian family presented with adult onset autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia (adPEO) complicated by late onset reversible failure of the CNS, respiratory, hepatic, and endocrine systems. Clinical findings were suggestive of mitochondrial dysfunction and multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions were demonstrated on long range and real time polymerase chain reaction assays but not on Southern blotting. The disorder is caused by a novel heterozygous PEO1 mutation predicting a Leu360Gly substitution in the twinkle protein. The peculiar clinical presentation expands the variable phenotype observed in adPEO and Twinkle gene mutations.
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- S Bohlega
- Department of Neurosciences, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Van Goethem G, Hugon M, Bhatnagar V, Manolatos P, Deffrennes M. Euratom innovation in nuclear fission: Community research in reactor systems and fuel cycles. Nuclear Engineering and Design 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2006.10.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Van Goethem G, Luoma P, Rantamäki M, Al Memar A, Kaakkola S, Hackman P, Krahe R, Löfgren A, Martin JJ, De Jonghe P, Suomalainen A, Udd B, Van Broeckhoven C. POLG mutations in neurodegenerative disorders with ataxia but no muscle involvement. Neurology 2005; 63:1251-7. [PMID: 15477547 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000140494.58732.83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 200] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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OBJECTIVE To identify POLG mutations in patients with sensory ataxia and CNS features. METHODS The authors characterized clinical, laboratory, and molecular genetic features in eight patients from five European families. The authors conducted sequencing of coding exons of POLG, C10orf2 (Twinkle), and ANT1 and analyzed muscle mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), including Southern blot analysis and long-range PCR. RESULTS Ataxia occurred in combination with various CNS features, including myoclonus, epilepsy, cognitive decline, nystagmus, dysarthria, thalamic and cerebellar white matter lesions on MRI, and neuronal loss in discrete gray nuclei on autopsy. Gastrointestinal dysmotility, weight loss, cardiomyopathy, and valproate-induced hepatotoxicity occurred less frequently. Two patients died without preceding signs of progressive external ophthalmoplegia. In muscle, typical findings of mitochondrial disease, such as ragged red fibers and Southern blot mtDNA abnormalities, were absent. POLG mutations were present in eight patients, including two isolated cases, and one Finnish and two unrelated Belgian families contained in total six patients. All POLG mutations were recessive, occurring in a homozygous state in seven patients and in a compound heterozygous state in one patient. The novel W748S mutation was identified in five patients from three unrelated families. CONCLUSIONS The clinical spectrum of recessive POLG mutations is expanded by sensory ataxic neuropathy, combined with variable features of involvement of CNS and other organs. Progressive external ophthalmoplegia, myopathy, ragged red fibers, and Southern blot abnormalities of muscle mitochondrial DNA also are not mandatory features associated with POLG mutations.
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- G Van Goethem
- Division of Neurology and the Neuromuscular Reference Center, University Hospital, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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Fernandez-Ruiz P, Forsström H, Van Goethem G. The sixth Euratom framework programme 2003–2006: a driving force for the construction of the Nuclear European Research Area. Nuclear Engineering and Design 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2004.08.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Van Goethem G, Mercelis R, Löfgren A, Seneca S, Ceuterick C, Martin JJ, Van Broeckhoven C. Patient homozygous for a recessive POLG mutation presents with features of MERRF. Neurology 2003; 61:1811-3. [PMID: 14694057 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000098997.23471.65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Both dominant and recessive missense mutations were recently reported in the gene encoding the mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma (POLG) in patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO). The authors report on a patient homozygous for a recessive missense mutation in POLG who presented with a multisystem disorder without PEO. The most prominent features were myoclonus, seizure, and sensory ataxic neuropathy, so the clinical picture overlapped with the syndrome of myoclonus, epilepsy, and ragged red fibers (MERRF).
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- G Van Goethem
- Division of Neurology and the Neuromuscular Reference Center, University Hospital Antwerp, Belgium
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Van Goethem G, Zurita A, Manolatos P, Bermejo J, Casalta S. EU research in “operational safety of existing installations” under the nuclear fission programme 1998–2002. Nuclear Engineering and Design 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0029-5493(02)00342-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Van Goethem G, Martin JJ, Dermaut B, Löfgren A, Wibail A, Ververken D, Tack P, Dehaene I, Van Zandijcke M, Moonen M, Ceuterick C, De Jonghe P, Van Broeckhoven C. Recessive POLG mutations presenting with sensory and ataxic neuropathy in compound heterozygote patients with progressive external ophthalmoplegia. Neuromuscul Disord 2003; 13:133-42. [PMID: 12565911 DOI: 10.1016/s0960-8966(02)00216-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia is a mitochondrial disease characterized by accumulation of multiple large-scale deletions of mitochondrial DNA. We previously reported missense mutations in POLG, the gene encoding the mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma in two nuclear families compatible with autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia. Here, we report a novel POLG missense mutation (R627W) in a sporadic patient and we provide genetic support that all these POLG mutations are actually causal and recessive. The novel patient presented with sensory ataxic neuropathy and has the clinical triad of sensory ataxic neuropathy, dysarthria and ophthalmoparesis (SANDO). This is the first finding of a genetic cause of Sensory Ataxic Neuropathy, Dysarthria and Ophthalmoparesis and it implies that this disorder may actually be a variant of autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia. Sensory neuropathy is the initial feature in Belgian compound heterozygote autosomal recessive progressive external ophthalmoplegia patients, all carrying the POLG A467T mutation, which occurs at a frequency of 0.6% in the Belgian population.
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- G Van Goethem
- Neuromuscular Reference Center, University Hospital of Antwerp (UZA), Antwerpen, Belgium.
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Van Goethem G, Zurita A, Martin Bermejo J, Lemaı̂tre P. Euratom Framework Programme research in reactor safety: main achievements of FP-4 ('94–'98), preliminary results of FP-5 ('98–'02) and prospects for beyond 2002. Nuclear Engineering and Design 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0029-5493(01)00383-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Ceuterick-de Groote C, De Jonghe P, Timmerman V, Van Goethem G, Löfgren A, Ceulemans B, Van Broeckhoven C, Martin JJ. Infantile demyelinating neuropathy associated with a de novo point mutation on Ser72 in PMP22 and basal lamina onion bulbs in skin biopsy. Pathol Res Pract 2001; 197:193-8. [PMID: 11314784 DOI: 10.1078/0344-0338-00033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Codon 72 has been designated as a hot spot for distinct missense mutations in the peripheral myelin protein 22 (PMP22) gene. Ser72Leu substitution was associated with Dejerine-Sottas syndrome (DSS) in four patients and with congenital hypomyelination neuropathy (CHN) in one patient. Our objective was to report one other DSS patient with Ser72Leu substitution in PMP22 and to concurrently illustrate how less invasive procedures such as skin biopsy could provide a rapid and reliable alternative to conventional sural nerve biopsy for the characterization of histophenotypic features. A skin biopsy was carried out in a 2 4/12-year-old girl with muscle atrophy, hypotonia and weakness, as well as generalized areflexia and absent sensory and motor nerve responses. Standard electron microscope techniques were used. PMP22 was screened by automated direct nucleotide sequencing analysis. Morphological examination revealed basal lamina onion bulbs surrounding a de- or hypomyelinated axon in all nerve bundles. Mutation analysis demonstrated a missense point mutation in codon 72 of the PMP22 gene leading to a Ser72Leu substitution. Further genotype-phenotype correlations will have to determine whether morphologically distinct phenotypes can be correlated with specific mutations. For this purpose, cutaneous nerve bundles could serve as an alternative tool to help identify and classify subtypes in this heterogeneous syndrome.
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- C Ceuterick-de Groote
- Laboratory of Neuropathology, Born-Bunge Foundation and University of Antwerp (UIA), Department of Medicine, Antwerpen, Belgium.
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Van Goethem G, Dermaut B, Löfgren A, Martin JJ, Van Broeckhoven C. Mutation of POLG is associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia characterized by mtDNA deletions. Nat Genet 2001; 28:211-2. [PMID: 11431686 DOI: 10.1038/90034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 538] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Progressive external ophthalmoplegias (PEO) characterized by accumulation of large-scale mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions are rare human diseases. We mapped a new locus for dominant PEO at 15q22-q26 in a Belgian pedigree and identified a heterozygous mutation (Y955C) in the polymerase motif B of the mtDNA polymerase gamma (POLG). We identified three additional POLG missense mutations compatible with recessive PEO In two nuclear families. POLG is the only DNA polymerase responsible for mtDNA replication.
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- G Van Goethem
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology, Born-Bunge Foundation, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1; B-2610 Antwerpen, Belgium
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This study presents a family with a syndromic form of X-linked mental retardation in which four males in two generations present severe mental retardation, slowly progressive spastic paraplegia, facial hypotonia, and maxillary hypoplasia. Multipoint linkage analysis with 24 highly polymorphic markers indicated two possible candidate regions: Xp21.1-Xq21.3 (flanking markers DXS1214 and DXS990) and Xq23-Xq27.1 (flanking markers DXS8020 and DXS984). The two known loci for X-linked mental retardation and spastic paraplegia are excluded: proteolipid protein in Xp21 and L1 cell adhesion molecule in Xq28. Therefore, the syndrome in this family appears to represent a previously undescribed X-linked spastic paraplegia-mental retardation syndrome.
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- S Claes
- Laboratory for Neurogenetics, Born-Bunge Foundation (BBS), University of Antwerp (UIA), Antwerp, Belgium.
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Devriendt K, Keymolen K, Roelen L, Van Goethem G, Meireleire J, Fryns JP. Severe short stature, hyperphalangy of the index fingers, mental retardation and facial dysmorphism. Clin Dysmorphol 2000; 9:111-4. [PMID: 10826622 DOI: 10.1097/00019605-200009020-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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We present an adult female patient with a so far unreported syndrome of severe short stature, severe mental retardation, facial dysmorphism and hyperphalangy of the index fingers. Parental consanguinity suggests an autosomal recessive inheritance.
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- K Devriendt
- Centre for Human Genetics, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium
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Lukusa T, Van Buggenhout G, Devriendt K, Meireleire J, Van Goethem G, Roelen L, Fryns JP. Zygodactyly as the most striking physical anomaly in an adult male patient with pure partial trisomy 1q. Ann Genet 1999; 41:199-204. [PMID: 9881182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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We report on a dysmorphic and mentally retarded adult male patient with partial trisomy 1q resulting from a "de novo" tandem duplication of the 1q32.3-->q42 region. The dysmorphic features consisted of facial asymmetry, synophrys, right external strabismus, teeth anomalies and bilateral syndactyly of fingers III-IV and toes II-III evoking zygodactyly. Clinical comparison is made between the present observation and previously reported cases with pure duplication including the chromosome 1 segment (q32-->q42).
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- T Lukusa
- Centre for Human Genetics, University Hospital of Leuven, Belgium
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Ieven M, Demey H, Ursi D, Van Goethem G, Cras P, Goossens H. Fatal encephalitis caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae diagnosed by the polymerase chain reaction. Clin Infect Dis 1998; 27:1552-3. [PMID: 9868691 DOI: 10.1086/517753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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- M Ieven
- University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
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A 19-year-old patient presented with exercise-related myalgia, fatigue and elevated creatine kinase levels. Histology of a muscle biopsy was characterized by the presence of very large amounts of tubular aggregates. Both his father and paternal grandfather had elevated creatine kinase and large amounts of tubular aggregates in their muscle biopsies. The aggregates consisted of closely packed vesicles and tubules filled with electron-dense material or with one to several smaller tubules. Disorders with tubular aggregates in the muscle fibres such as hyperornithinaemia with gyrate atrophy of the retina, hypokalaemic periodic paralysis, hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis, myotonia congenita, alcoholism, osteomalacic myopathy etc. have been excluded. Tubular aggregates can be found in muscle disorders characterized by exercise-induced cramps, pain and stiffness. They also represent the predominant histological feature of some familial myopathies due to a yet unidentified genetic defect. In our family, there was male-to-male transmission, confirming dominant inheritance.
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Joosten E, Van Hove L, Lesaffre E, Goossens W, Dereymaeker L, Van Goethem G, Pelemans W. Serum erythropoietin levels in elderly inpatients with anemia of chronic disorders and iron deficiency anemia. J Am Geriatr Soc 1993; 41:1301-4. [PMID: 8227911 DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb06479.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To analyze the relationship between serum erythropoietin levels and hemoglobin levels in elderly patients with anemia of chronic disorders related to cancer or acute infection when compared with anemic patients with iron deficiency. DESIGN Prospective survey with comparison groups. SETTING Tertiary care center. PATIENTS An elderly group aged 70 and above (mean 84, range 70-96) was divided into subgroups of 45 with anemia of chronic disorders (23 with cancer and 22 with acute infection), 24 with iron-deficiency anemia, and 27 with no anemia. Thirty non-anemic younger adults were also studied. MEASUREMENTS Serum erythropoietin (radioimmunoassay), complete blood count, serum iron, B12, folate and ferritin, liver and kidney function tests, blood gas analyses, and bacteriological and radiological tests. RESULTS The serum erythropoietin levels were significantly lower in the elderly non-anemic hospitalized group than in the healthy younger group. A significant negative relationship between the log serum erythropoietin and hemoglobin levels was found in patients with iron deficiency, but not in the other groups. For any given hemoglobin level, the response of erythropoietin was significantly higher in anemic patients with iron deficiency when compared with the neoplastic and infectious group. CONCLUSION Erythropoietin response to anemia is blunted in elderly patients with anemia of chronic disorders related to cancer or acute infection. Erythropoietin level is lower in non-anemic elderly inpatients than in healthy younger persons.
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- E Joosten
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospitals K.U. Leuven, Belgium
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Van Goethem G, Lassmann K. The coupling algorithm between fuel pin and coolant channel in the european accident code EAC-2. Nuclear Engineering and Design 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/0029-5493(89)90025-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Van Goethem G, Broekaert D, Van Oostveldt P, Van Parijs R. Characterization of foldback sequences in Lupinus augustifolius nuclear DNA [proceedings]. Arch Int Physiol Biochim 1978; 86:462-4. [PMID: 81032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Van Oostveldt P, Van Goethem G, Van Parijs R. Effect of light on cell elongation, nucleic acid and protein synthesis in hypocotyls of Lupinus angustifolius. Planta 1976; 129:259-263. [PMID: 24430967 DOI: 10.1007/bf00398268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/1975] [Accepted: 12/08/1975] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The synthesis of DNA, RNA, protein and dry matter was followed in the elongating cells of hypocotyl of Lupinus (Lupinus angustifolius L.) germinating in total darkness or in continuous light. Light strongly inhibits the synthesis of DNA, RNA and protein. It was shown by histofluorometric DNA determinations that a reduced synthesis of DNA in continuous light is accompanied by a lower level of endomitosis in the cortex cells of the hypocotyl. In the dark cortex nuclei become 8 C while in the light they become only 4 C. The more pronounced differences between dark and light germinated hypocotyls of lupinus in comparison with pea epicotyls is explained to a great extent by mitotic growth.
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- P Van Oostveldt
- Laboratorium voor Biochemie, Faculteit der Landbouwwetenschappen, Ledeganckstraat 35, B 9000, Ghent, Belgium
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