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JOURNAL OF BIOENERGETICS AND BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 251-257Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010791204961
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mitochondrial translation; mitochondrial diseases; LHON; ND subunits; mitochondrial gene expression; complex immunoprecipitation
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM-11726] Funding Source: Medline
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Sixteen years ago, we demonstrated, by immunological and biochemical approaches, that seven subunits of complex I are encoded in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and synthesized on mitochondrial ribosomes in mammalian cells. More recently, we carried out a biochemical, molecular, and cellular analysis of a mutation in the gene for one of these subunits, ND4, that causes Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). We demonstrated that, in cells carrying this mutation, the mtDNA-encoded subunits of complex I are assembled into a complex, but the rate of complex I-dependent respiration is decreased. Subsequently, we isolated several mutants affected in one or another of the mtDNA-encoded subunits of complex I by exposing established cell lines to high concentrations of rotenone. Our analyses of these mtDNA mutations affecting subunits of complex I have shown that at least two of these subunits, ND4 and ND6, are essential for the assembly of the enzyme. ND5 appears to be located at the periphery of the enzyme and, while it is not essential for assembly of the other mtDNA-encoded subunits into a complex, it is essential for complex I activity. In fact, the synthesis of the ND5 polypeptide is rate limiting for the activity of the enzyme.
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