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A mitochondrial cytochrome b mutation causing severe respiratory chain enzyme deficiency in humans and yeast

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Anna MitchellORCiD, Dr Andrew Schaefer, Dr Margaret Jackson, Emeritus Professor Doug Turnbull, Professor Robert Taylor

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Abstract

Whereas the majority of disease-related mitochondrial DNA mutations exhibit significant biochemical and clinical heterogeneity, mutations within the mitochondrially encoded human cytochrome b gene (MTCYB) are almost exclusively associated with isolated complex III deficiency in muscle and a clinical presentation involving exercise intolerance. Recent studies have shown that a small number of MTCYB mutations are associated with a combined enzyme complex defect involving both complexes I and III, on account of the fact that an absence of assembled complex III results in a dramatic loss of complex I, confirming a structural dependence between these two complexes. We present the biochemical and molecular genetic studies of a patient with both muscle and brain involvement and a severe reduction in the activities of both complexes I and III in skeletal muscle due to a novel mutation in the MTCYB gene that predicts the substitution (Arg318Pro) of a highly conserved amino acid. Consistent with the dramatic biochemical defect, Western blotting and BN-PAGE experiments demonstrated loss of assembled complex I and III subunits. Biochemical studies of the equivalent amino-acid substitution (Lys319Pro) in the yeast enzyme showed a loss of enzyme activity and decrease in the steady-state level of bc1 complex in the mutant confirming pathogenicity. © 2005 FEBS.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Blakely EL, Mitchell AL, Fisher N, Meunier B, Nijtmans LG, Schaefer AM, Jackson MJ, Turnbull DM, Taylor RW

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: FEBS Journal

Year: 2005

Volume: 272

Issue: 14

Pages: 3583-3592

ISSN (print): 17424-64X

ISSN (electronic): 1742-4658

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04779.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04779.x

PubMed id: 16008558


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074454Wellcome Trust

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