Publication Date:
2000-08-05
Description:
Autosomal dominant progressive external ophthalmoplegia is a rare human disease that shows a Mendelian inheritance pattern, but is characterized by large-scale mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions. We have identified two heterozygous missense mutations in the nuclear gene encoding the heart/skeletal muscle isoform of the adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT1) in five families and one sporadic patient. The familial mutation substitutes a proline for a highly conserved alanine at position 114 in the ANT1 protein. The analogous mutation in yeast caused a respiratory defect. These results indicate that ANT has a role in mtDNA maintenance and that a mitochondrial disease can be caused by a dominant mechanism.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kaukonen, J -- Juselius, J K -- Tiranti, V -- Kyttala, A -- Zeviani, M -- Comi, G P -- Keranen, S -- Peltonen, L -- Suomalainen, A -- 1180/Telethon/Italy -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Aug 4;289(5480):782-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Public Health Institute, Department of Human Molecular Genetics, Mannerheimintie 166, 00300 Helsinki, Finland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10926541" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Amino Acid Substitution
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Animals
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DNA, Mitochondrial/*genetics/*metabolism
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Female
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Founder Effect
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Genes, Dominant
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Humans
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Isoenzymes/chemistry/genetics/metabolism
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Italy
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Male
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Mitochondrial ADP, ATP Translocases/chemistry/*genetics/*metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation, Missense
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Ophthalmoplegia, Chronic Progressive External/enzymology/*genetics
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Oxygen Consumption
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Pedigree
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Point Mutation
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae/enzymology/genetics/metabolism
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Sequence Deletion
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Transformation, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
