Journal
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 1788, Issue 10, Pages 2003-2014Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.07.009
Keywords
Tafazzin; Cardiolipin; Barth syndrome; Splice variant; Tissue distribution; Quantitative PCR
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- Prinses Beatrix Fonds [WAR05-0126]
- Barth Syndrome Foundation
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The mitochondrial phospholipid cardiolipin plays an important role in cellular metabolism as exemplified by its involvement in mitochondrial energy production and apoptosis. Following its biosynthesis, cardiolipin is actively remodeled to achieve its final acyl composition. An important cardiolipin remodeling enzyme is tafazzin, of which several mRNA splice variants exist. Mutations in the tafazzin gene cause the X-linked recessive disorder Barth syndrome. In addition to providing an overview of the current knowledge in literature about tafazzin, we present novel experimental data and use this to discuss the functional role of the different tafazzin variants in cardiolipin metabolism in relation to Barth syndrome. We developed and performed specific quantitative PCR analyses of different tafazzin mRNA splice variants in 16 human tissues and correlated this with the tissue cardiolipin profile. In BTHS fibroblasts we showed that mutations in the tafazzin gene affected both the level and distribution of tafazzin mRNA variants. Transient expression of selected human tafazzin variants in BTHS fibroblasts showed for the first time in a human cell system that tafazzin lacking exon5 indeed functions in cardiolipin remodeling. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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