Abstract:
:We have sequenced all mitochondrial tRNA genes from a patient with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) and mitochondrial myopathy, who had no detectable large mtDNA deletions. Direct sequencing failed to detect previously reported mutations and showed a heteroplasmic mutation at nucleotide 12,276 in the tRNA(Leu(CUN)) gene, in the dihydrouridine stem, which is highly conserved through the species during evolution. RFLP analyses confirmed that 18% of muscle mtDNA harbored the mutation, while it was absent from DNA of fibroblasts and lymphocytes of the proband and in 110 patients with other encephalomyopathies. To date, besides large and single nucleotide deletions, several point mutations on mitochondrial tRNA genes have been reported in CPEO patients, but only three were in the gene coding for tRNA(Leu(CUN)).
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Cardaioli E,Da Pozzo P,Radi E,Dotti MT,Federico Adoi
10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.11.170subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2005-02-18 00:00:00pages
675-8issue
3eissn
0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
S0006-291X(04)02740-8journal_volume
327pub_type
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