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A novel mitochondrial DNA point mutation in the tRNA(Ile) gene: Studies in a patient presenting with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and multiple sclerosis

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Robert Taylor, Professor Patrick Chinnery, Emeritus Professor David Bates, Dr Margaret Jackson, Dr Margaret Johnson, Dr Richard Andrews, Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull

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Abstract

We report a new mutation, a G to A transition at nucleotide position 4298 within the mitochondrial tRNA(Ile) gene in a patient with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and multiple sclerosis. The mutation, which alters an evolutionary conserved nucleotide within the anticodon stem, was heteroplasmic in skeletal muscle but was not present in the patient's blood. Single fibre PCR analysis revealed significantly higher levels of the G4298A mutation in cytochrome c oxidase (COX) negative fibres than in COX-positive fibres. This mutation represents the seventh pathogenic nucleotide substitution to be found in this gene and as such confirms the tRNA(Ile) gene as a susceptible 'hot spot' for mitochondrial DNA point mutations. Of particular interest is that this patient has the clinical features of both multiple sclerosis and a mitochondrial DNA disorder.


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Author(s): Taylor RW; Chinnery PF; Andrews RM; Johnson MA; Turnbull DM; Bates MJD; Jackson MJ

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Year: 1998

Volume: 243

Issue: 1

Pages: 47-51

Print publication date: 04/02/1998

ISSN (print): 0006-291X

ISSN (electronic): 1090-2104

Publisher: Elsevier Inc.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/bbrc.1997.8055

DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1997.8055

PubMed id: 9473477


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