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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 275, Issue 51, Pages 39831-39836Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M006476200
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY11305] Funding Source: Medline
- NINDS NIH HHS [NS21328] Funding Source: Medline
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Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a form of blindness caused by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in complex I genes. We report an extensive biochemical analysis of the mitochondrial defects in lymphoblasts and transmitochondrial cybrids harboring the three most common LHON mutations: 3460A, 11778A, and 14484C. Respiration studies revealed that the 3460A mutation reduced the maximal respiration rate 20-28%, the 11778A mutation 30-36%, and the 14484C mutation 10-15%. The respiration defects of the 3460A and 11778A mutations transferred in cybrid experiments linking these defects to the mtDNA. Complex I enzymatic assays revealed that the 3460A mutation resulted in a 79% reduction in specific activity and the 11778A mutation resulted in a 20% reduction, while the 14484C mutation did not affect the complex I activity. The enzyme defect of the 3460A mutation transferred with the mtDNA in cybrids. Overall, these data support the conclusion that the 3460A and 11778A mutants result in complex I defects and that the 14484C mutation causes a much milder biochemical defect. These studies represent the first direct comparison of oxidative phosphorylation defects among all of the primary LHON mtDNA mutations, thus permitting insight into the underlying pathophysiological mechanism of the disease.
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