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Query: EC:1.3.5.1 (succinate dehydrogenase)
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The strongly succinate dehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels (SSV) are shown to have increased numbers of enlarged mitochondria in smooth muscle cells of the vessel wall on electron microscopy. They are seen in biopsied skeletal muscles from patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) at high frequency. The present study was done to examine the incidence of SSV in biopsied muscles from various neuromuscular diseases. Among 107 patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathies (MEM) including 50 with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO), 7 with myoclonus epilepsy with ragged-red fibers (MERRF), and 50 with MELAS, SSV were seen in nearly a half of the patients, and comprised approximately 24% of small arteries. On the other hand, SSV in 100 patients with various neuromuscular diseases other than MEM were exceptional, and only one of 8 patients with myotonic dystrophy had SSV. These findings suggest that the SSV are induced by functional abnormality of mitochondria in smooth muscle cells, and that an identification of the SSV is an additional crucial evidence to make a pathological diagnosis of MEM.
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PMID:[Strongly succinate dehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels (SSV) in various neuromuscular diseases]. 142 48

Vascular involvement in biopsied muscle specimens from 11 patients with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) with ragged-red fibers (RRF) was studied. Almost none of 69 intramuscular arteries examined were strongly stained with succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) except one patient who had 2 SSV (strongly SDH-reactive blood vessels) in his muscle biopsy. Although RRF and focal cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) deficiency in muscle fibers were the common histochemical changes in muscle biopsy specimens from CPEO patients, all mitochondria in both endothelial and smooth muscle cells of the arteries had normal morphology except for the two SSV and all mitochondria in the blood vessels had normal CCO activity by electron cytochemistry. The findings obtained from the present study were quite different from those in mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), and myoclonus epilepsy associated with ragged-red fibers (MERRF) in which the striking vascular involvement with SSV is the most common and major abnormality in muscle biopsy specimens. To study vascular involvement in mitochondrial encephalomyopathies is the one of very important clues to understand the pathophysiology of phenotypic expressions in mitochondrial encephalomyopathies.
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PMID:[Vascular pathology in chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia with ragged-red fibers]. 161 73

Intramuscular blood vessels were examined with succinate dehydrogenase stain in skeletal muscle biopsy specimens from 6 patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS). Almost all arteries had large granular deposits with high succinate dehydrogenase activity in their walls. Electron microscopic examination of serial frozen sections of these biopsies showed that the smooth muscle cells of the strongly succinate dehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels contained markedly proliferated mitochondria, characteristic of patients with MELAS. The presence of strongly succinate dehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels in muscle biopsy specimens provides an important clue toward understanding the underlying pathogenetic mechanism in patients with MELAS as well as another approach to the diagnosis of this disorder.
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PMID:Strongly succinate dehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels in muscles from patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes. 189 63

Patients treated for aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage show, in the long-term follow up, an elevated rate of cognitive disturbances that are mainly related to the impact of the initial bleeding: the neurotoxic effects of blood deposition in subarachnoidal spaces may result in a diffuse encephalopathy, but the intrinsic mechanism and the biochemical correlates are not known. In the present study we have evaluated mitochondrial function after experimental induction of subarachnoid hemorrhage. Mitochondrial function was evaluated in four different rat brain areas (frontal cortex, occipital cortex, hippocampus, and brain stem) after experimental isobaric subarachnoid hemorrhage in rats. Subarachnoid hemorrhage was induced by injecting 0.07 mL of arterial autologous blood into the cisterna magna. Intracranial pressure did not significantly increase. The nonsynaptic mitochondrial fraction was isolated from different rat brain areas, and the maximal rate of enzymatic reactions of some key enzymatic activities related to the Krebs cycle [nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (oxidized form) (NAD+)-isocitrate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, and succinate dehydrogenase] and of the electron transfer chain (cytochrome oxidase) were evaluated. The nonsynaptic mitochondrial fraction was utilized also to check parameters related to the mitochondrial respiration: state 3, state 4, uncoupled state, respiratory control ratio, and adenosine 5'-diphosphate/oxygen ratio. The biochemical parameters were measured at 1 and 72 hours after the subarachnoidal injection of blood. Subarachnoid hemorrhage did not affect the mitochondrial enzymatic activities both at 1 and 72 hours, while the mitochondrial enzymatic activities parameters were significantly affected: in particular, a significant decrease of respiratory control ratio in all tested brain areas was demonstrated. The increased mitochondrial vulnerability in the delayed phases could be one of the biochemical correlates of post-hemorrhagic encephalopathy.
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PMID:Experimental isobaric subarachnoid hemorrhage: regional mitochondrial function during the acute and late phase. 221 48

We report severe deficiency of complex II of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and low activities of complex I and II in skeletal muscle mitochondria from a young woman with progressive muscle weakness and encephalopathy. Defects of complex II have only very rarely been described and this is the first report of decreased immunoreactive subunits associated with severe deficiency of this enzyme.
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PMID:Multiple defects of the respiratory chain including complex II in a family with myopathy and encephalopathy. 255 Dec 72

The extent of molecular defects in the mitochondrial energy-transducing system was examined in autopsied tissues of a 14-year-old male with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) in order to elucidate the underlying molecular and genetic abnormalities. The patient also had other multiorganic disorders: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, nephrotic syndrome, and pseudohypoparathyroidism. Enzymic activities of complex I and IV were severely decreased, and those of complex III and V were mildly decreased in the mitochondria isolated from various tissues, but the severity of the deficiencies varied from tissue to tissue. In contrast, complex II and citrate synthase activities were normal or were decreased to a lesser extent than the enzymic activities of other complexes in all the tissues examined. These results suggest that the energy-transducing complexes, namely complexes, I, III, IV, and V, that contain mitochondrially synthesized subunits, were selectively affected. Immunoblot analysis demonstrated that the decreased enzymic activities were based on decreased contents of subunits in these complexes. The multiorganic manifestation of the disorder may result from wide and uneven distribution of abnormal mitochondria that have pleiotropic molecular defects in the energy-transducing complexes among the organs of the patient.
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PMID:Pleiotropic molecular defects in energy-transducing complexes in mitochondrial encephalomyopathy (MELAS). 280 15

The electron transport system of muscle mitochondria was examined in a familial syndrome of lactacidemia, mitochondrial myopathy, and encephalopathy. The propositus, a 14-year-old female, and her 12-year-old sister had suffered from progressive muscle weakness, abnormal fatigability, and central nervous system dysfunction since early childhood. In the propositus, the state 3 respiratory rate of muscle mitochondria with NADH-linked substrates and with succinate was markedly reduced. The levels of cytochromes a + a3, b, and c + c1 were normal. The activities of complexes I, II, III, and IV of the electron transport chain were normal or increased. By contrast, the activities of complex I-III and of complex II-III, both of which need coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), were abnormally low. On direct measurement, the mitochondrial CoQ10 content was 3.7% of the mean value observed in 10 controls. Serum and cultured fibroblasts of the propositus had normal CoQ10 contents. In the younger sister, the respiratory activities and CoQ10 level of muscle mitochondria were similar to those observed in the propositus. The findings establish CoQ10 deficiency as a cause of a familial mitochondrial cytopathy and suggest that the disease results from a tissue-specific defect of CoQ10 biosynthesis.
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PMID:Muscle coenzyme Q deficiency in familial mitochondrial encephalomyopathy. 292 37

Oral administration of manganese chloride (25 mg/kg b. w. daily) to monkeys for a period of 18 months produced congestion and marked increase in weight of testis. Histopathologic examination revealed interstitial oedema and degeneration of seminiferous tubules. Activities of succinic dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and acid phosphatase were significantly inhibited whereas NADH-diaphorase and alkaline phosphatase activities showed only slight inhibition in seminiferous tubules of treated monkeys. It was concluded that chronic exposure to manganese does not produce sever degenerative changes in the testis earlier than metal induced encephalopathy in primates.
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PMID:Manganese induced testicular changes in monkeys. 624 33

We sought a relationship between abnormalities of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and muscle pathology in patients with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes (MELAS) at the single fiber level, using histochemistry, in situ hybridization, and single fiber PCR. Most type 1 ragged-red fibers (RRF) showed positive cytochrome c oxidase (COX) activity at the subsarcolemmal region, while type 2 RRF showed little COX activity. However, there was no difference in the amount of total (mutant and wild-type) mtDNAs and the proportion of mutant mtDNA between type 1 RRF and type 2 RRF. These observations suggest that mitochondrial proliferation and nuclear factors affect muscle pathology, including COX activity, in MELAS. Total mtDNAs were greatly increased in RRF. The proportion of mutant mtDNA was significantly higher in RRF than in non-RRF. The amount of both wild-type and mutant mtDNAs was increased in RRF in MELAS, which fact does not support the contention of a replicative advantage of mutant mtDNA. The proportion of mutant mtDNA was significantly higher in the strongly succinate dehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels (SSV) than in non-SSV. The similar morphological behavior in these vessels and fibers suggests that increased mutant mtDNA is responsible for mitochondrial proliferation and dysfunction in both tissues. It seems likely that systemic vascular abnormalities involving cerebral vessels lead to the evolution of strokelike episodes in MELAS.
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PMID:Mitochondrial DNA mutation and muscle pathology in mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes. 760 11

A 16-year-old female presented with clinical, morphologic and molecular features of mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS). Her early development was normal. Starting from the age of 14 years, she experienced recurrent episodes of headaches, with vomiting, seizures, transient right hemiparesis and decreased visual acuity. Computed tomographic brain scans revealed calcification in the bilateral basal ganglia. Biopsied specimens from her left biceps brachii and rectus femoris muscles revealed ragged-red fibers and strong succinate dehydrogenase-reactive blood vessels. Electron microscopy revealed paracrystalline inclusions in muscle mitochondria. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from blood, hair follicles and muscle specimens showed an A to G point mutation at nucleotide position 3,243 in the transfer RNA(Leu(UUR)). The proportion of mutant mtDNA in the patient's blood was 43%, in hair follicles 62% and in muscle 82%. The patient was followed up for 4 years and had progressive mental deterioration and died of an episode of status epilepticus. This patient and 5 other MELAS patients reported in Taiwan are compared.
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PMID:Heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA mutation in a patient with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes. 761 32


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