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Specific storage of subunit c of mitochondrial ATP synthase in lysosomes of neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten's disease).
Kominami, E; Ezaki, J; Muno, D; Ishido, K; Ueno, T; Wolfe, L S.
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  • Kominami E; Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo.
J Biochem ; 111(2): 278-82, 1992 Feb.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1533218
ABSTRACT
Immunochemical studies demonstrated the specific accumulation of subunit c of mitochondrial ATP synthase in the brain homogenates of late infantile and juvenile forms of Batten's disease. It is not stored in the infantile form. Storage of subunit alpha of mitochondrial ATP synthase and cytochrome c oxidase subunit IV, an inner membrane protein of mitochondria was not detected in the brains. There was also no difference in the levels of cathepsin B between the two forms of Batten's disease and controls. In cultured skin fibroblasts subunit c accumulates in the late infantile form, whereas it does not in other lysosomal storage diseases. Crude mitochondrial lysosomal preparations of control fibroblasts were separated into high-density fractions rich in a lysosomal marker and low-density fractions rich in a mitochondrial marker on Percoll density gradients. Subunit c was mostly recovered in low-density mitochondrial fractions, but in cells from the late infantile disease a part of subunit c was recovered in the high-density lysosomal fractions. Immunolocalization studies demonstrated a dot-like staining of storage materials for subunit c in the cells from late infantile patients and the staining pattern of subunit c is similar to that of a lysosomal membrane marker, lgp120. Immunostaining failed to detect subunit c in control cells. These results indicate a specific accumulation of subunit c in lysosomes, and suggest that the two forms of Batten's disease are caused by a specific failure in the degradation of subunit c.
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Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 1992 Tipo de documento: Article
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Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Limite: Humans Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 1992 Tipo de documento: Article