Journal
MITOCHONDRION
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages 871-877Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2011.06.006
Keywords
Penetrance; Leber's optic neuropathy; Mitochondrion; Complex III; Complex I; Mutaion; Chinese
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- National Institutes of Health (NIH) from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [RO1DC05230, RO1DC07696]
- National Science Foundation of China [30628013]
- Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China [Z204492]
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The ND4 G11778A mutation is the most common mitochondria! DNA mutation leading to Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). Despite considerable clinical evidences, the modifier role of nuclear background and mitochondrial haplotypes in phenotypic manifestation of LHON remains poorly understood. We investigated the effect of these modifiers on bioenergetics in lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from five affected subjects of one Chinese family carrying the G11778A mutation and five Chinese controls. Significant reductions in the activities of complexes land Ill were observed in mutant cell lines from the Chinese family, whereas the mutant cell lines from other families carrying the same mutation exhibited only reduced activity of complex I. The reduced activities of complexes I and III caused remarkably higher reductions of ATP synthesis in mutant cell lines from the Chinese family than those from other families. The deficient respiration increased generation of reactive oxygen species. The defect in complex III activity, likely resulting from the mitochondrial haplotype or nuclear gene alteration, worsens mitochondrial dysfunction caused by the G11778A mutation, thereby causing extremely high penetrance and expressivity of optic neuropathy in this Chinese family. Our data provide the first experimental evidence that altered activity of complex III modulates the phenotypic manifestation of LHON-associated G11778A mutation. Thus, our findings may provide new insights into the pathophysiology of LHON. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. and Mitochondria Research Society. All rights reserved.
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