A new version of ResearchHub is available.Try it now
Healthy Research Rewards
ResearchHub is incentivizing healthy research behavior. At this time, first authors of open access papers are eligible for rewards. Visit the publications tab to view your eligible publications.
Got it
CG
Cinzia Gellera
Author with expertise in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Dementia
Achievements
Cited Author
Open Access Advocate
Key Stats
Upvotes received:
0
Publications:
13
(54% Open Access)
Cited by:
6,380
h-index:
62
/
i10-index:
170
Reputation
Biology
< 1%
Chemistry
< 1%
Economics
< 1%
Show more
How is this calculated?
Publications
0

Maternally inherited myopathy and cardiomyopathy: association with mutation in mitochondrial DNA tRNALeu(UUR)

Massimo Zeviani et al.Jul 1, 1991
Different point mutations of the mitochondrial genome, which all affect the ability of mitochondria to translate their own genes and lead to partial defects of mtDNA-dependent respiratory complexes, are related to distinct clinical mitochondrial disorders. A new maternally inherited disorder, characterised by a combination of adult-onset myopathy and cardiomyopathy, with no clinical involvement of the nervous system, was found in members of a single large pedigree. A heteroplasmic new mutation was identified in the mtDNA gene specifying tRNALeu (UUR). This mutation segregated specifically with the disorder, and there were significant correlations between the proportion of the mtDNA that was of the mutant form and the activities (normalised for citrate synthase activity) of the two mtDNA-dependent respiratory enzymes (complex I, r=-0·71, p<0·005: complex IV r=-0·77, p<0·005) and the maximum oxygen consumption (r=-0·82, p<0·005), a physiological index of aerobic metabolism. These findings strongly suggest that the tRNALeu (UUR) mutation is the genetic cause of this disorder, and that lesions of mtDNA should be considered in the differential diagnosis of the hereditary cardiomyopathies.
0
Citation384
0
Save
Load More