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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
卷 278, 期 45, 页码 44161-44167出版社
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M307615200
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Presented is a study of the impact on the structure and function of human complex I of three different homozygous mutations in the NDUFS4 gene coding for the 18-kDa subunit of respiratory complex I, inherited by autosomal recessive mode in three children affected by a fatal neurological Leigh-like syndrome. The mutations consisted, respectively, of a AAGTC duplication at position 466 - 470 of the coding sequence, a single base deletion at position 289/290, and a G44A nonsense mutation in the first exon of the gene. All three mutations were found to be associated with a defect of the assembly of a functional complex in the inner mitochondrial membrane. In all the mutations, in addition to destruction of the carboxyl-terminal segment of the 18-kDa subunit, the amino-terminal segment of the protein was also missing. In the mutation that was expected to produce a truncated subunit, the disappearance of the protein was associated with an almost complete disappearance of the NDUFS4 transcript. These observations show the essential role of the NDUFS4 gene in the structure and function of complex I and give insight into the pathogenic mechanism of NDUFS4 gene mutations in a severe defect of complex I.
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