Mutations in mtDNA-encoded cytochrome c oxidase subunit genes causing isolated myopathy or severe encephalomyopathy
| Autor: | M. Völpel, Rita Horvath, Benedikt Schoser, Josef Müller-Höcker, Hanns Lochmüller, Michaela Jaksch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male Ataxia Proline Nonsense mutation DNA Mutational Analysis Glutamic Acid Exercise intolerance medicine.disease_cause Rhabdomyolysis Electron Transport Complex IV Mitochondrial myopathy Muscular Diseases Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies medicine Serine Missense mutation Cytochrome c oxidase Humans RNA Messenger Myopathy Muscle Skeletal Genetics (clinical) Genetics Mutation biology Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction medicine.disease Immunohistochemistry Neurology Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health biology.protein Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom |
| Zdroj: | Neuromuscular disorders : NMD. 15(12) |
| ISSN: | 0960-8966 |
| Popis: | We report on clinical, histological and genetic findings in two patients carrying novel heteroplasmic mutations in the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit genes COII and COIII. The first patient, a 35 year-old man had a multisystemic disease, with clinical symptoms of bilateral cataract, sensori-neural hearing loss, myopathy, ataxia, cardiac arrhythmia, depression and short stature and carried a 7970 G>T (E129X) nonsense mutation in COII. A sudden episode of metabolic encephalopathy caused by extremely high blood lactate lead to coma. The second patient developed exercise intolerance and rhabdomyolysis at age 22 years. A heteroplasmic missense mutation 9789 T>C (S195P) was found in skeletal muscle, but not in blood and myoblasts pointing to a sporadic mutation. Our report of two patients with isolated COX deficiency and new mutations in COX subunit genes may help to draw more attention to this type of mtDNA defects and provide new aspects for counselling affected families. |
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