Novel MT-ND gene variants causing adult-onset mitochondrial disease and isolated complex I deficiency
Abstract: Mitochondrial complex I deficiency is associated with a diverse range of clinical phenotypes and can arise due to either mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or nuclear gene defects. We investigated two adult patients who exhibited non-syndromic neurological features and evidence of isolated mitochondrial complex I deficiency in skeletal muscle biopsies. The first presented with indolent myopathy, progressive since age 17, while the second developed deafness around age 20 and other relapsing-remitting neurological symptoms since. A novel, likely de novo, frameshift variant in MT-ND6 (m.14512_14513del) and a novel maternally-inherited transversion mutation in MT-ND1 were identified, respectively. Skewed tissue segregation of mutant heteroplasmy level was observed; the mutant heteroplasmy levels of both variants were greater than 70% in muscle homogenate, however, in blood the MT-ND6 variant was undetectable while the mutant heteroplasmy level of the MT-ND1 variant was low (12%). Assessment of complex I assembly by Blue-Native PAGE demonstrated a decrease in fully assembled complex I in the muscle of both cases. SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting showed decreased levels of mtDNA-encoded ND1 and several nuclear encoded complex I subunits in both cases, consistent with functional pathogenic consequences of the identified variants. Pathogenicity of the m.14512_14513del was further corroborated by single-fiber segregation studies
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Frontiers in genetics. - 11 (2020) , 24, ISSN: 1664-8021
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Freiburg
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Universität
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2020
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Ng, Yi Shiau
Thompson, Kyle
Loher, Daniela
Hopton, Sila
Falkous, Gavin
Hardy, Steven A.
Schaefer, Andrew M.
Shaunak, Sandip
Roberts, Mark E.
Lilleker, James B.
Taylor, Robert W.
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10.3389/fgene.2020.00024
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urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-1586696
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- Ng, Yi Shiau
- Thompson, Kyle
- Loher, Daniela
- Hopton, Sila
- Falkous, Gavin
- Hardy, Steven A.
- Schaefer, Andrew M.
- Shaunak, Sandip
- Roberts, Mark E.
- Lilleker, James B.
- Taylor, Robert W.
- Universität
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- 2020