Novel mutations in the mitochondrial complex I assembly gene NDUFAF5 reveal heterogeneous phenotypes
| Autor: | Simon, Mariella T, Eftekharian, Shaya S, Stover, Alexander E, Osborne, Aaron F, Braffman, Bruce H, Chang, Richard C, Wang, Raymond Y, Steenari, Maija R, Tang, Sha, Hwu, Paul Wuh-Liang, Taft, Ryan J, Benke, Paul J, Abdenur, Jose E |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Mitochondrial Diseases Adolescent Biopsy Clinical Sciences Neurodegenerative Splicing Mitochondrial Proteins Young Adult Exome Sequencing Complex I Genetics Humans 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors Aetiology Child Preschool Skin Genetics & Heredity Electron Transport Complex I Whole Genome Sequencing Human Genome Infant Methyltransferases Leigh syndrome Mitochondrial disease Pedigree Brain Disorders NDUFAF5 Phenotype Mutation Female Leigh Disease Hyponatremia |
| Zdroj: | Molecular genetics and metabolism, vol 126, iss 1 |
| Popis: | Primary mitochondrial complex I deficiency is the most common defect of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. It is caused by defects in structural components and assembly factors of this large protein complex. Mutations in the assembly factor NDUFAF5 are rare, with only five families reported to date. This study provides clinical, biochemical, molecular and functional data for four unrelated additional families, and three novel pathogenic variants. Three cases presented in infancy with lactic acidosis and classic Leigh syndrome. One patient, however, has a milder phenotype, with symptoms starting at 27 months and a protracted clinical course with improvement and relapsing episodes. She is homozygous for a previously reported mutation, p.Met279Arg and alive at 19 years with mild neurological involvement, normal lactate but abnormal urine organic acids. We found the same mutation in one of our severely affected patients in compound heterozygosity with a novel p.Lys52Thr mutation. Both patients with p.Met279Arg are of Taiwanese descent and had severe hyponatremia. Our third and fourth patients, both Caucasian, shared a common, newly described, missense mutation p.Lys109Asn which we show induces skipping of exon 3. Both Caucasian patients were compound heterozygotes, one with a previously reported Ashkenazi founder mutation while the other was negative for additional exonic variants. Whole genome sequencing followed by RNA studies revealed a novel deep intronic variant at position c.223-907A>C inducing an exonic splice enhancer. Our report adds significant new information to the mutational spectrum of NDUFAF5, further delineating the phenotypic heterogeneity of this mitochondrial defect. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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