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  3. Mutations in the accessory subunit NDUFB10 result in isolated complex I deficiency and illustrate the critical role of intermembrane space import for complex I holoenzyme assembly

Mutations in the accessory subunit NDUFB10 result in isolated complex I deficiency and illustrate the critical role of intermembrane space import for complex I holoenzyme assembly

  • Hum Mol Genet. 2017 Feb 15;26(4):702-716. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddw431.
Marisa W Friederich 1,  Alican J Erdogan 2,  Curtis R Coughlin 2nd 1,  Mihret T Elos 1,  Hua Jiang 1,  Courtney P O'Rourke 1,  Mark A Lovell 3 4,  Eric Wartchow 3 4,  Katherine Gowan 5,  Kathryn C Chatfield 6,  Wallace S Chick 7,  Elaine B Spector 1,  Johan L K Van Hove 1,  Jan Riemer 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Pediatrics, Section of Clinical Genetics and Metabolism, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • 2 Department of Chemistry, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
  • 3 Department of Pathology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • 4 Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • 5 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • 6 Department of Pediatrics, Section of Cardiology, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
  • 7 Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA.
PMID: 28040730 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw431
Abstract

An infant presented with fatal infantile lactic acidosis and cardiomyopathy, and was found to have profoundly decreased activity of respiratory chain complex I in muscle, heart and liver. Exome sequencing revealed compound heterozygous mutations in NDUFB10, which encodes an accessory subunit located within the PD part of complex I. One mutation resulted in a premature stop codon and absent protein, while the second mutation replaced the highly conserved cysteine 107 with a serine residue. Protein expression of NDUFB10 was decreased in muscle and heart, and less so in the liver and fibroblasts, resulting in the perturbed assembly of the holoenzyme at the 830 kDa stage. NDUFB10 was identified together with three other complex I subunits as a substrate of the intermembrane space oxidoreductase CHCHD4 (also known as Mia40). We found that during its mitochondrial import and maturation NDUFB10 transiently interacts with CHCHD4 and acquires disulfide bonds. The mutation of cysteine residue 107 in NDUFB10 impaired oxidation and efficient mitochondrial accumulation of the protein and resulted in degradation of non-imported precursors. Our findings indicate that mutations in NDUFB10 are a novel cause of complex I deficiency associated with a late stage assembly defect and emphasize the role of intermembrane space proteins for the efficient assembly of complex I.

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