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The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, is 15445 bp. It includes the genes coding for cytochrome B (Cyt B), ATPase subunit 6 and 8 (A6 and A8), NADH dehydrogenase subunits 1-6 and 4L (ND1, ND2, ND3, ND4, ND4L, ND5 and ND6), cytochrome c oxidase subunits I-III (COI, COII and COIII), two rRNA genes (12S rRNA and 16S rRNA) and 22 tRNAs. Two copies of tRNA-Lys are present in the mtDNA of L. salmonis, while tRNA-Cys was not identified. Both DNA strands contain coding regions in the salmon louse, in contrast to the other copepod characterized Tigriopus japonicus, but only a few genes overlap. In vertebrates, ND4 and ND4L are transcribed as one bicistronic mRNA, and are therefore localized together. The same organization is also found in crustaceans, with the exceptions of T. japonicus, Neocalanus cristatus and L. salmonis that deviate from this pattern. Another exception of the L. salmonis mtDNA is that A6 and A8 do not overlap, but are separated by several genes. The protein-coding genes have a bias towards AT-rich codons. The mitochondrial gene order in L. salmonis differs significantly from the copepods T. japonicus, Eucalanus bungii, N. cristatus and the other 13 crustaceans previously characterized. Furthermore, the mitochondrial rRNA genes are encoded on opposite strands in L. salmonis. This has not been found in any other arthropods, but has been reported in two starfish species. In a phylogenetic analysis, using an alignment of mitochondrial protein sequences, L. salmonis groups together with T. japonicus, being distant relatives to the other crustaceans.
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PMID:Genetic characterization of the mitochondrial DNA from Lepeophtheirus salmonis (Crustacea; Copepoda). A new gene organization revealed. 1598 68

Leigh syndrome can result from both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA defects. Mutations in complex V genes of the respiratory chain were considered until recently as the most frequent cause for mitochondrial inherited Leigh syndrome, while gene defects in complex I were related to recessive Leigh syndrome. Recently few reports of mutations in the mitochondrial-encoded complex I subunit genes causing Leigh syndrome have been reported. We describe a 1-month-old baby who acutely deteriorated, with abrupt onset of brainstem dysfunction, due to basal ganglia lesions extending to the brainstem. A muscle biopsy demonstrated complex I deficiency. Subsequent analysis of the mitochondrial genome revealed a homoplastic T10191C mutation in the ND3 gene (in blood and muscle), resulting in a substitution of serine to proline. Hair root analysis revealed a 50% mutant load, reflecting heteroplasmy in early embryonic stages. The mutation was also detected in his mother (5%). Western blot analysis revealed a decrease of the 20 kDa subunit (likely ND6) and of the 30 kDa subunit (NDUFA9), which is probably due to instability attributed to the inability to form subcomplexes with ND3. This is the first description of infantile Leigh syndrome due to a maternally transmitted T10191C substitution in ND3 and not due to a de novo mutation. This mutation is age and tissue dependent and therefore may not be amenable to prenatal testing.
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PMID:Fulminant neurological deterioration in a neonate with Leigh syndrome due to a maternally transmitted missense mutation in the mitochondrial ND3 gene. 1602 78

Extracellular and intraneuronal formation of amyloid-beta (Abeta) deposits have been demonstrated to be involved in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, the precise mechanism of Abeta neurotoxicity is not completely understood. Previous studies suggest that binding of Abeta with a number of targets have deleterious effects on cellular functions. It has been shown that Abeta directly interacted with intracellular protein ERAB (endoplasmic reticulum amyloid beta-peptide-binding protein) also known as ABAD (Abeta-binding alcohol dehydrogenase) resulting in mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death. In the present study we have identified another mitochondrial enzyme, ND3 of the human complex I, that binds to Abeta1-42 by the screening of a human brain cDNA library expressed on M13 phage. Our results indicated a strong interaction between Abeta and a phage-displayed 25 amino acid long peptide TTNLPLMVMSSLLLIIILALSLAYE corresponding to C-terminal peptide domain of NADH dehydrogenase, subunit 3 (MTND3) encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). This interaction may explain, in part, the inhibition of complex I activity in astrocytes and neurons in the presence of Abeta, described recently. To our knowledge, the present study is the first demonstration of interaction between Abeta and one of the subunits of the human complex I.
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PMID:Identification of amyloid-beta 1-42 binding protein fragments by screening of a human brain cDNA library. 1638 38

The amino acids sequences of the mitochondrial DNA-coded peptides of placental mammals evolved at different rates in different branches of the mammalian phylogenetic tree. Adaptive selection was suggested to account for the faster evolution of some mitochondrial DNA-coded proteins in several branches of the mammalian tree, but the driving force(s) for the accelerated evolution has not been elucidated. Mitochondria generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that appear to constrain the life span of many species. Therefore, I tested the hypothesis that the evolution of mammalian longevity drives the accelerated evolution of mitochondrial DNA-coded peptides. Using rodents as an outgroup for a clad that included most placental mammals (excluding rodents and hedgehogs) the computed rates of amino acid substitution per site were positively correlated with genus longevity (maximal observed averaged life span) for most of the mitochondrial DNA-coded peptides. The substitution per site of ATP6, the proton conducting subunit of ATPsynthase, CYTB, the core subunit of ubiquinone oxidoreductase that participate in both electron and proton transport, and ND3, a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase, showed the strongest correlations with longevity. Additional confirmation for the hypothesis was obtained by the observation that the genetic distances between placental mammals species that belong to different orders are positively correlated with the sum of longevities of the species pairs. The substitutions per site for the entire amino acid sequence coded by the heavy strand mtDNA were also positively correlated with the average longevities of the placental mammals orders. These results support the hypothesis that the evolution of longevity in mammals drove the accelerated evolution of mtDNA-coded peptide. It is suggested that, in mammals, adaptive selection of mutations that decrease the rate of production of reactive oxygen species, directly or indirectly (e.g. by increasing proton leak), increases longevity.
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PMID:Longevity and the evolution of the mitochondrial DNA-coded proteins in mammals. 1687 33

Made of more than 40 subunits, the rotenone-sensitive NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) is the most intricate membrane-bound enzyme of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. In vascular plants, fungi, and animals, at least seven complex I subunits (ND1, -2, -3, -4, -4L, -5, and -6; ND is NADH dehydrogenase) are coded by mitochondrial genes. The role of these highly hydrophobic subunits in the enzyme activity and assembly is still poorly understood. In the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, the ND3 and ND4L subunits are encoded in the nuclear genome, and we show here that the corresponding genes, called NUO3 and NUO11, respectively, display features that facilitate their expression and allow the proper import of the corresponding proteins into mitochondria. In particular, both polypeptides show lower hydrophobicity compared to their mitochondrion-encoded counterparts. The expression of the NUO3 and NUO11 genes has been suppressed by RNA interference. We demonstrate that the absence of ND3 or ND4L polypeptides prevents the assembly of the 950-kDa whole complex I and suppresses the enzyme activity. The putative role of hydrophobic ND subunits is discussed in relation to the structure of the complex I enzyme. A model for the assembly pathway of the Chlamydomonas enzyme is proposed.
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PMID:ND3 and ND4L subunits of mitochondrial complex I, both nucleus encoded in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, are required for activity and assembly of the enzyme. 1696 30

Defects in NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I), the largest complex of the mitochondrial respiratory chain, account for most cases of respiratory chain deficiency in human. Complex I contains at least 45 subunits, 7 of which are encoded by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Here we report a novel 10197G>A mutation of the ND3 gene in three unrelated families with Leigh syndrome (LS) or dystonia. Variable degrees of heteroplasmy were found in all tissues tested and a high percentage of mutant mtDNA was observed in muscle. The 10197G>A mutation modifies a hydrophobic alanine residue into a hydrophilic threonine (A47T) in a highly conserved domain of ND3 subunit. Furthermore, this defect could be transferred along with the mutant mtDNAs to rho degrees lymphoblastoid cells in cybrid experiments. However, nuclear modifier genes may also play a role in the phenotypic expression and severity of the 10197G>A mutation. The association of the 10197G>A ND3 mutation with an isolated biochemical defect involving complex I and the discovery of the 10197G>A mutation with a similar phenotype in three unrelated families establish its pathogenicity and demonstrate that the amino acid position A47 is important for the function of complex I. These results show that the 10197G>A mutation in the mitochondrial ND3 gene should be considered as a common mtDNA mutation responsible for LS and dystonia.
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PMID:A novel recurrent mitochondrial DNA mutation in ND3 gene is associated with isolated complex I deficiency causing Leigh syndrome and dystonia. 1715 68

Mitochondrial disorders have notoriously variable clinical presentations, particularly in children. A growing number of reports describe mutations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-encoded subunits of complex I (EC 1.6.5.3) causing early-onset encephalopathy. Here, we describe two Korean siblings with childhood-onset progressive generalized dystonia and one Korean child with strokelike episodes in infancy; all three had bilateral lesions of the basal ganglia and partial deficiencies of complex I. Analysis of their mtDNA revealed a novel heteroplasmic m.10197G>A mutation (A47T) in the ND3 (NADH dehydrogenase subunit 3) gene. This study underscores the importance of screening mtDNA-encoded respiratory chain structural genes, including ND3, in pediatric patients with unexplained encephalopathies.
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PMID:A novel ND3 mitochondrial DNA mutation in three Korean children with basal ganglia lesions and complex I deficiency. 1741 73

Mitochondrial complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) undergoes reversible deactivation upon incubation at 30-37 degrees C. The active/deactive transition could play an important role in the regulation of complex I activity. It has been suggested recently that complex I may become modified by S-nitrosation under pathological conditions during hypoxia or when the nitric oxide:oxygen ratio increases. Apparently, a specific cysteine becomes accessible to chemical modification only in the deactive form of the enzyme. By selective fluorescence labeling and proteomic analysis, we have identified this residue as cysteine-39 of the mitochondrially encoded ND3 subunit of bovine heart mitochondria. Cysteine-39 is located in a loop connecting the first and second transmembrane helix of this highly hydrophobic subunit. We propose that this loop connects the ND3 subunit of the membrane arm with the PSST subunit of the peripheral arm of complex I, placing it in a region that is known to be critical for the catalytic mechanism of complex I. In fact, mutations in three positions of the loop were previously reported to cause Leigh syndrome with and without dystonia or progressive mitochondrial disease.
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PMID:Identification of the mitochondrial ND3 subunit as a structural component involved in the active/deactive enzyme transition of respiratory complex I. 1850 55

Leigh syndrome is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder occurring in infancy and childhood characterized in most cases by a psychomotor retardation, optic atrophy, ataxia, dystonia, failure to thrive, seizures and respiratory failure. In this study, we performed a systematic sequence analysis of mitochondrial genes associated with LS in Tunisian patients. We sequenced the encoded complex I units: ND2, ND3, ND4, ND5 and ND6 genes and the mitochondrial ATPase 6, tRNA(Val), tRNA(Leu(UUR)), tRNA(Trp) and tRNA(Lys) genes in 10 unrelated patients with Leigh syndrome. We revealed the presence of 34 reported polymorphisms, nine novel nucleotide variants and two new mutations (T5523G and A5559G) in the tested patients. These two mutations were localized in two conserved regions of the tRNA(Trp) and affect, respectively, the D-stem and the T-stem of the mitochondrial tRNA leading to a disruption of the secondary structure of this tRNA. SSP-PCR analysis showed that the T5523G and A5559G mutations were present with respective heteroplasmic rates of 66% and 43 %. We report here the first mutational screening of mitochondrial mutations in Tunisian patients with Leigh syndrome which described two novel mutations associated with this disorder.
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PMID:Two new mutations in the MT-TW gene leading to the disruption of the secondary structure of the tRNA(Trp) in patients with Leigh syndrome. 1934

Mitochondrial encephalopathies may be caused by mutations in the respiratory chain complex I subunit genes. Described here are the cases of two pediatric patients who presented with MELAS-like calcarine lesions in addition to novel, bilateral rolandic lesions and epilepsia partialis continua, secondary to MT-ND3 mutations. Data were collected included neurologic symptoms, serial brain imaging, metabolic evaluations, skeletal muscle biopsies, mitochondrial biochemical and molecular testing. Permission for publication was given by the families. Muscle histology revealed nonspecific changes, with no ragged red or blue or COX-negative fibers. Sequencing of the mitochondrial DNA indicated patient 2 to be homoplasmic in muscle for the mt.10158T>C mutation in the ND3 subunit and Patient 1 to be 75% heteroplasmic for the mt.10191T>C mutation, also in ND3. Bilateral rolandic lesions and epilepsia partialis continua accompanied by suspicion of mitochondrial disease are indications to search for an underlying mutation in the MT-ND3 gene.
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PMID:Rolandic mitochondrial encephalomyelopathy and MT-ND3 mutations. 1952 Feb 70


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