A Lethal Defect of Mitochondrial and Peroxisomal Fission
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We report on a newborn girl with microcephaly, abnormal brain development, optic atrophy and hypoplasia, persistent lactic acidemia, and a mildly elevated plasma concentration of very-long-chain fatty acids. We found a defect of the fission of both mitochondria and peroxisomes, as well as a heterozygous, dominant-negative mutation in the dynamin-like protein 1 gene (DLP1). The DLP1 protein has previously been implicated, in vitro, in the fission of both these organelles. Overexpression of the mutant DLP1 in control cells reproduced the fission defect. Our findings are representative of a class of disease characterized by defects in both mitochondria and peroxisomes.
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Mutations in DRP1 lead to a severe neurological syndrome with microencephaly, hypotonia, alterations in brain development, and metabolism that cause neonatal lethality due to multi-system damage.
“Mutations in DRP1 lead to a severe neurological syndrome with microencephaly, hypotonia, alterations in brain development, and metabolism that cause neonatal lethality due to multi-system damage [201–203].”
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- Authors
- Waterham, H. R., Koster, J., van Roermund, C. W. T., Mooyer, P. A. W., Wanders, R. J. A., & Leonard, J. V.
- Affiliations
- Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam (NL)
- University College London (GB)
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2007-04-26
- Volume
- 356
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 1736-1741
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W1978268445
- Cited by
- 749
- References
- 25
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- FWCI
- 14.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Clinical Biochemistry › Metabolism and Genetic Disorders
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
- Keywords
- mitochondrial fission, Drp1, dominant negative mutation, microcephaly, optic atrophy, lactic acidemia, very long chain fatty acids
- MeSH terms
- Abnormalities, Multiple, Acidosis, Lactic, Eye Abnormalities, Fatty Acids, Female, Fibroblasts, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Male, Microcephaly, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Mitochondria, Muscle Hypotonia, Mutation, Open Reading Frames, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Fatal Outcome, GTP Phosphohydrolases, Peroxisomes, Mitochondrial Proteins, Dynamins
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