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Variation in mitochondrial DNA levels in muscle from normal controls. Is depletion of mtDNA in patients with mitochondrial myopathy a distinct clinical syndrome.

Abstract：

:Recent studies have identified a group of patients with cytochrome oxidase (COX) deficiency presenting in infancy associated with a deficiency of mtDNA in muscle or other affected tissue (Moraes et al 1991). We used a novel approach to compare the level of mitochondrial (mtDNA) compared to nuclear DNA in skeletal muscle from a group of patients and controls, based on dot blots that were hybridized with a mtDNA probe labelled with 35S[dCTP] and a reference nuclear DNA probe labelled with [32P]dCTP. The ratio of mtDNA to nuclear DNA varied in samples from different muscles of the same individual. Secondly, fetal muscle had very low levels of mtDNA compared to nuclear DNA, and data from older controls (cross-sectional rather than sequential) suggest that this increases rapidly over the first 3 months after birth and thereafter more slowly. Four patients with COX deficiency had levels of mtDNA that were below the age-specific range defined by 'normal' quadriceps muscle. The clinical features to two of these patients were similar to earlier case reports of mtDNA depletion. In three patients the clinical course was relatively benign compared to cases that have previously been described. Levels of mtDNA in skeletal muscle from some patients with other forms of muscle disease were also found to be low, suggesting that mtDNA depletion, possibly related to depletion of mitochondria, may be a relatively non-specific response of muscle to various pathological processes. However, there does appear to be a distinctive group of young patients with reduced cytochrome oxidase activity in muscle, in whom marked mtDNA depletion reflects the primary defect.

journal_name

J Inherit Metab Dis

journal_title

Journal of inherited metabolic disease

authors

Poulton J,Sewry C,Potter CG,Bougeron T,Chretien D,Wijburg FA,Morten KJ,Brown G

doi

10.1007/BF00711367

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1995-01-01 00:00:00

pages

4-20

issue

eissn

0141-8955

issn

1573-2665

journal_volume

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Variation in mitochondrial DNA levels in muscle from normal controls. Is depletion of mtDNA in patients with mitochondrial myopathy a distinct clinical syndrome.