Mitochondrial diseases

GS Gorman, PF Chinnery, S DiMauro… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Mitochondrial diseases are a group of genetic disorders that are characterized by defects in
oxidative phosphorylation and caused by mutations in genes in the nuclear DNA (nDNA) …

Differential diagnosis of lipoic acid synthesis defects

F Tort, X Ferrer-Cortes, A Ribes - Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2016 - Springer
Lipoic acid (LA) is an essential cofactor required for the activity of five multienzymatic
complexes that play a central role in the mitochondrial energy metabolism: four 2-oxoacid …

Role of Nfu1 and Bol3 in iron-sulfur cluster transfer to mitochondrial clients

A Melber, U Na, A Vashisht, BD Weiler, R Lill… - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are essential for many cellular processes, ranging from aerobic
respiration, metabolite biosynthesis, ribosome assembly and DNA repair. Mutations in NFU1 …

Iron-sulfur clusters in mitochondrial metabolism: multifaceted roles of a simple cofactor

J Stiban, M So, LS Kaguni - Biochemistry (Moscow), 2016 - Springer
Iron-sulfur metabolism is essential for cellular function and is a key process in mitochondria.
In this review, we focus on the structure and assembly of mitochondrial iron-sulfur clusters …

Mammalian Fe–S proteins: definition of a consensus motif recognized by the co-chaperone HSC20

N Maio, TA Rouault - Metallomics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Iron–sulfur (Fe–S) clusters are inorganic cofactors that are fundamental to several
biological processes in all three kingdoms of life. In most organisms, Fe–S clusters are …

KCNA4 deficiency leads to a syndrome of abnormal striatum, congenital cataract and intellectual disability

N Kaya, M Alsagob, MC D'Adamo… - Journal of medical …, 2016 - jmg.bmj.com
Background Voltage-gated potassium channels are highly diverse proteins representing the
most complex class of voltage-gated ion channels from structural and functional …

A leaky splicing mutation in NFU1 is associated with a particular biochemical phenotype. Consequences for the diagnosis

X Ferrer-Cortès, J Narbona, N Bujan, L Matalonga… - Mitochondrion, 2016 - Elsevier
Mutations in NFU1 were recently identified in patients with fatal encephalopathy. NFU1 is an
iron–sulfur cluster protein necessary for the activity of the mitochondrial respiratory chain …

Nonketotic hyperglycinemia (glycine encephalopathy) and lipoate deficiency disorders

JLK Van Hove, JB Hennermann… - Inborn Metabolic Diseases …, 2016 - Springer
Nonketotic hyperglycinemia (NKH) is caused by defective glycine cleavage enzyme activity.
Classic NKH is caused by mutations in protein coding genes (GLDC and AMT). Disorders of …

生物磁受体蛋白MagR/IscA 研究进展

汪红霞, 向远彩, 张义国 - 生物化学与生物物理进展, 2016 - cqvip.com
铁硫簇蛋白是一类重要的线粒体功能蛋白, 在细胞能量代谢, 电子传递, 底物结合与激活,
铁/硫存储, 酶促反应, 基因表达调控等诸多过程中均发挥了关键作用. 铁硫簇蛋白质组装及转运 …

Homozygous c.259G>A variant in ISCA1 is associated with a new multiple mitochondrial dysfunctions syndrome

A Shukla, M Hebbar, A Srivastava, R Kadavigere… - bioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
The iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster (ISC) biogenesis pathway is indispensable for many
fundamental biological processes and pathogenic variations in genes encoding several …