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Mitochondrial DNA mutations in mutator mice confer respiration defects and B-cell lymphoma development.


ABSTRACT: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutator mice are proposed to express premature aging phenotypes including kyphosis and hair loss (alopecia) due to their carrying a nuclear-encoded mtDNA polymerase with a defective proofreading function, which causes accelerated accumulation of random mutations in mtDNA, resulting in expression of respiration defects. On the contrary, transmitochondrial mito-mice? carrying mtDNA with a large-scale deletion mutation (?mtDNA) also express respiration defects, but not express premature aging phenotypes. Here, we resolved this discrepancy by generating mtDNA mutator mice sharing the same C57BL/6J (B6J) nuclear background with that of mito-mice?. Expression patterns of premature aging phenotypes are very close, when we compared between homozygous mtDNA mutator mice carrying a B6J nuclear background and selected mito-mice? only carrying predominant amounts of ?mtDNA, in their expression of significant respiration defects, kyphosis, and a short lifespan, but not the alopecia. Therefore, the apparent discrepancy in the presence and absence of premature aging phenotypes in mtDNA mutator mice and mito-mice?, respectively, is partly the result of differences in the nuclear background of mtDNA mutator mice and of the broad range of ?mtDNA proportions of mito-mice? used in previous studies. We also provided direct evidence that mtDNA abnormalities in homozygous mtDNA mutator mice are responsible for respiration defects by demonstrating the co-transfer of mtDNA and respiration defects from mtDNA mutator mice into mtDNA-less (?(0)) mouse cells. Moreover, heterozygous mtDNA mutator mice had a normal lifespan, but frequently developed B-cell lymphoma, suggesting that the mtDNA abnormalities in heterozygous mutator mice are not sufficient to induce a short lifespan and aging phenotypes, but are able to contribute to the B-cell lymphoma development during their prolonged lifespan.

SUBMITTER: Mito T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3572082 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mitochondrial DNA mutations in mutator mice confer respiration defects and B-cell lymphoma development.

Mito Takayuki T   Kikkawa Yoshiaki Y   Shimizu Akinori A   Hashizume Osamu O   Katada Shun S   Imanishi Hirotake H   Ota Azusa A   Kato Yukina Y   Nakada Kazuto K   Hayashi Jun-Ichi J  

PloS one 20130213 2


Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutator mice are proposed to express premature aging phenotypes including kyphosis and hair loss (alopecia) due to their carrying a nuclear-encoded mtDNA polymerase with a defective proofreading function, which causes accelerated accumulation of random mutations in mtDNA, resulting in expression of respiration defects. On the contrary, transmitochondrial mito-miceΔ carrying mtDNA with a large-scale deletion mutation (ΔmtDNA) also express respiration defects, but not exp  ...[more]

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