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HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS
卷 21, 期 6, 页码 1230-1247出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr554
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- National Institutes of Health [R21NS 052198A1, P01HL 085098A1]
- American Heart Association [0855646G]
- Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance
- Federacion de Ataxias de Espana
- Shire Pharmaceuticals (Human Genetic Therapies unit, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Friedreichs ataxia (FRDA) is the most common inherited human ataxia and results from a deficiency of the mitochondrial protein, frataxin (FXN), which is encoded in the nucleus. This deficiency is associated with an ironsulfur (FeS) cluster enzyme deficit leading to progressive ataxia and a frequently fatal cardiomyopathy. There is no cure. To determine whether exogenous replacement of the missing FXN protein in mitochondria would repair the defect, we used the transactivator of transcription (TAT) protein transduction domain to deliver human FXN protein to mitochondria in both cultured patient cells and a severe mouse model of FRDA. A TATFXN fusion protein bound iron in vitro, transduced into mitochondria of FRDA deficient fibroblasts and reduced caspase-3 activation in response to an exogenous iron-oxidant stress. Injection of TATFXN protein into mice with a conditional loss of FXN increased their growth velocity and mean lifespan by 53 increased their mean heart rate and cardiac output, increased activity of aconitase and reversed abnormal mitochondrial proliferation and ultrastructure in heart. These results show that a cell-penetrant peptide is capable of delivering a functional mitochondrial protein in vivo to rescue a very severe disease phenotype, and present the possibility of TATFXN as a protein replacement therapy.
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