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Quantitative Variation in m.3243A?>?G Mutation Produce Discrete Changes in Energy Metabolism.

ABSTRACT: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) 3243A?>?G tRNALeu(UUR) heteroplasmic mutation (m.3243A?>?G) exhibits clinically heterogeneous phenotypes. While the high mtDNA heteroplasmy exceeding a critical threshold causes mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis with stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome, the low mtDNA heteroplasmy causes maternally inherited diabetes with or without deafness (MIDD) syndrome. How quantitative differences in mtDNA heteroplasmy produces distinct pathological states has remained elusive. Here we show that despite striking similarities in the energy metabolic gene expression signature, the mitochondrial bioenergetics, biogenesis and fuel catabolic functions are distinct in cells harboring low or high levels of the m.3243?A?>?G mutation compared to wild type cells. We further demonstrate that the low heteroplasmic mutant cells exhibit a coordinate induction of transcriptional regulators of the mitochondrial biogenesis, glucose and fatty acid metabolism pathways that lack in near homoplasmic mutant cells compared to wild type cells. Altogether, these results shed new biological insights on the potential mechanisms by which low mtDNA heteroplasmy may progressively cause diabetes mellitus.

SUBMITTER: McMillan RP

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6453956 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Quantitative Variation in m.3243A > G Mutation Produce Discrete Changes in Energy Metabolism.

McMillan Ryan P RP Stewart Sidney S Budnick James A JA Caswell Clayton C CC Hulver Matthew W MW Mukherjee Konark K Srivastava Sarika S

Scientific reports 20190408 1

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) 3243A > G tRNALeu<sup>(UUR)</sup> heteroplasmic mutation (m.3243A > G) exhibits clinically heterogeneous phenotypes. While the high mtDNA heteroplasmy exceeding a critical threshold causes mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis with stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome, the low mtDNA heteroplasmy causes maternally inherited diabetes with or without deafness (MIDD) syndrome. How quantitative differences in mtDNA heteroplasmy produces distinct pathological stat ...[more]

PMID: 30962477

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Project description:The m.3243A>G mutation in the mitochondrial gene MT-TL1 leads to a wide clinical spectrum ranging from asymptomatic carriers to MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes) at the severe end. Diabetes mellitus (DM) occurs in mitochondrial diseases, with the m.3243A>G mutation being the most common mutation associated with mitochondrial DM. The pathogenesis of mitochondrial DM remains largely unknown, with previous studies suggesting that impaired insulin secretion is the major factor. In this study we used stable isotope infusion techniques to assess glucose metabolism in vivo and under physiological conditions in 5 diabetic and 11 non-diabetic adults with the m.3243A>G mutation and 10 healthy adult controls. Our results revealed increased glucose production due to increased gluconeogenesis in both diabetic and non-diabetic subjects with the m.3243A>G mutation. In addition, diabetic subjects demonstrated insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency, resulting in an inability to increase glucose oxidation which can explain the development of DM in these subjects. Non-diabetic subjects showed normal insulin sensitivity; and therefore, they were able to increase their glucose oxidation rate. The ability to increase glucose utilization can act as a compensatory mechanism that explains why these subjects do not have DM despite the higher rate of glucose production. These results suggest that increased gluconeogenesis is not enough to cause DM and the occurrence of combined insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency are needed to develop DM in individuals with the m.3243A>G mutation. Therefore, multiple defects in insulin and glucose metabolism are required for DM to occur in individuals with mitochondrial diseases. The results of this study uncover previously undocumented alterations in glucose metabolism in individuals with the m.3243A>G mutation that contribute significantly to our understanding of the pathogenesis of mitochondrial DM and can have significant implications for its management.

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Quantitative Variation in m.3243A?>?G Mutation Produce Discrete Changes in Energy Metabolism.

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Quantitative Variation in m.3243A > G Mutation Produce Discrete Changes in Energy Metabolism.

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