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- Title
A novel deficiency of mitochondrial ATPase of nuclear origin.
- Authors
Houstek, Josef; Klement, Petr; Floryk, Daniel; Antonicka, Hana; Hermanska, Jana; Kalous, Martin; Hansikova, Hana; Houstkova, Hana; Chowdhury, Subir K. R.; Rosipal, Stefan; Kmoch, Stanislav; Stratilova, Leona; Zeman, Jiri
- Abstract
We report a new type of fatal mitochondrial disorder caused by selective deficiency of mitochondrial ATP synthase (ATPase). A hypotrophic newborn from a consanguineous marriage presented severe lactic acidosis, cardiomegaly and hepatomegaly and died from heart failure after 2 days. The activity of oligomycin-sensitive ATPase was only 31-34% of the control, both in muscle and heart, but the activities of cytochrome c oxidase, citrate synthase and pyruvate dehydrogenase were normal. Electrophoretic and western blot analysis revealed selective reduction of ATPase complex but normal levels of the respiratory chain complexes I, III and IV. The same selective deficiency of ATPase was found in cultured skin fibroblasts which showed similar decreases in ATPase content, ATPase hydrolytic activity and level of substrate-dependent ATP synthesis (20-25, 18 and 29-33% of the control, respectively). Pulse-chase labelling of patient fibroblasts revealed low incorporation of [[sup 35]S]methionine into assembled ATPase complexes, but increased incorporation into immunoprecipitated ATPase subunit β, which had a very short half-life. In contrast, no difference was found in the size and subunit composition of the assembled and newly produced ATPase complex. Transmitochondrial cybrids prepared from enucleated fibroblasts of the patient and ρ° cells derived from 143B.TK[sup -] human osteosarcoma cells fully restored the ATPase activity, ATP synthesis and ATPase content, when compared with control cybrids. Likewise, the pattern of [[sup 35]S]methionine labelling of ATPase was found to be normal in patient cybrids. We conclude that the generalized deficiency of mitochondrial ATPase described is of nuclear origin and is caused by altered biosynthesis of the enzyme.
- Subjects
MITOCHONDRIAL pathology; ADENOSINE triphosphatase
- Publication
Human Molecular Genetics, 1999, Vol 8, Issue 11, p1967
- ISSN
0964-6906
- Publication type
Article