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Vidali S, Gerlini R, Thompson K, Urquhart JE, Meisterknecht J, Aguilar‐Pimentel JA, Amarie OV, Becker L, Breen C, Calzada‐Wack J, Chhabra NF, Cho Y, da Silva‐Buttkus P, Feichtinger RG, Gampe K, Garrett L, Hoefig KP, Hölter SM, Jameson E, Klein‐Rodewald T, Leuchtenberger S, Marschall S, Mayer‐Kuckuk P, Miller G, Oestereicher MA, Pfannes K, Rathkolb B, Rozman J, Sanders C, Spielmann N, Stoeger C, Szibor M, Treise I, Walter JH, Wurst W, Mayr JA, Fuchs H, Gärtner U, Wittig I, Taylor RW, Newman WG, Prokisch H, Gailus‐Durner V, Hrabě de Angelis M. Characterising a homozygous two-exon deletion in UQCRH: comparing human and mouse phenotypes. EMBO Mol Med 2021; 13:e14397. [PMID: 34750991 PMCID: PMC8649870 DOI: 10.15252/emmm.202114397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2021] [Revised: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 10/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Mitochondrial disorders are clinically and genetically diverse, with isolated complex III (CIII) deficiency being relatively rare. Here, we describe two affected cousins, presenting with recurrent episodes of severe lactic acidosis, hyperammonaemia, hypoglycaemia and encephalopathy. Genetic investigations in both cases identified a homozygous deletion of exons 2 and 3 of UQCRH, which encodes a structural complex III (CIII) subunit. We generated a mouse model with the equivalent homozygous Uqcrh deletion (Uqcrh-/- ), which also presented with lactic acidosis and hyperammonaemia, but had a more severe, non-episodic phenotype, resulting in failure to thrive and early death. The biochemical phenotypes observed in patient and Uqcrh-/- mouse tissues were remarkably similar, displaying impaired CIII activity, decreased molecular weight of fully assembled holoenzyme and an increase of an unexpected large supercomplex (SXL ), comprising mostly of one complex I (CI) dimer and one CIII dimer. This phenotypic similarity along with lentiviral rescue experiments in patient fibroblasts verifies the pathogenicity of the shared genetic defect, demonstrating that the Uqcrh-/- mouse is a valuable model for future studies of human CIII deficiency.
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Fuchs H, Aguilar-Pimentel JA, Amarie OV, Becker L, Calzada-Wack J, Cho YL, Garrett L, Hölter SM, Irmler M, Kistler M, Kraiger M, Mayer-Kuckuk P, Moreth K, Rathkolb B, Rozman J, da Silva Buttkus P, Treise I, Zimprich A, Gampe K, Hutterer C, Stöger C, Leuchtenberger S, Maier H, Miller M, Scheideler A, Wu M, Beckers J, Bekeredjian R, Brielmeier M, Busch DH, Klingenspor M, Klopstock T, Ollert M, Schmidt-Weber C, Stöger T, Wolf E, Wurst W, Yildirim AÖ, Zimmer A, Gailus-Durner V, Hrabě de Angelis M. Understanding gene functions and disease mechanisms: Phenotyping pipelines in the German Mouse Clinic. Behav Brain Res 2017; 352:187-196. [PMID: 28966146 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.09.048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2017] [Revised: 09/18/2017] [Accepted: 09/25/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
Since decades, model organisms have provided an important approach for understanding the mechanistic basis of human diseases. The German Mouse Clinic (GMC) was the first phenotyping facility that established a collaboration-based platform for phenotype characterization of mouse lines. In order to address individual projects by a tailor-made phenotyping strategy, the GMC advanced in developing a series of pipelines with tests for the analysis of specific disease areas. For a general broad analysis, there is a screening pipeline that covers the key parameters for the most relevant disease areas. For hypothesis-driven phenotypic analyses, there are thirteen additional pipelines with focus on neurological and behavioral disorders, metabolic dysfunction, respiratory system malfunctions, immune-system disorders and imaging techniques. In this article, we give an overview of the pipelines and describe the scientific rationale behind the different test combinations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Helmut Fuchs
- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Oana V Amarie
- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Julia Calzada-Wack
- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Sabine M Hölter
- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Martin Irmler
- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Kristin Moreth
- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
| | - Patricia da Silva Buttkus
- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Research Unit Comparative Medicine, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Research Unit Comparative Medicine, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Chair of Experimental Genetics, School of Life Science Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 8, 85354 Freising, Germany
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- Department of Cardiology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Research Unit Comparative Medicine, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene, Technische Universität München, Trogerstr. 30, 81675 Munich, Germany
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- Chair of Molecular Nutritional Medicine, Technical University Munich, EKFZ - Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Nutritional Medicine, Gregor-Mendel-Str. 2, 85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany; ZIEL - Institute for Food and Health, Technical University Munich, Gregor-Mendel-Str. 2, 85350 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
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- Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Baur-Institute, Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Ziemssenstr. 1a, 80336 Munich, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), 80336 Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schillerstr. 44, 80336 Munich, Germany; German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Department of Infection and Immunity, Luxembourg Institute of Health, 29, Rue Henri Koch, 4354 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; Department of Dermatology and Allergy Center, Odense Research Center for Anaphylaxis, University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense C, Denmark
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- Center of Allergy & Environment (ZAUM), Technische Universität München, and Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ingolstädter-Landstr., 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Lung Biology and Disease, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Animal Breeding and Biotechnology, Gene Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-University München, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Institute of Developmental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), 80336 Munich, Germany; Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Adolf-Butenandt-Institut, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schillerstr. 44, 80336 Munich, Germany; Chair of Developmental Genetics, Technische Universität München Freising-Weihenstephan, c/o Helmholtz Zentrum München Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Lung Biology and Disease, Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Institute of Molecular Psychiatry, Medical Faculty, University of Bonn, Sigmund Freud Str. 25, 53127 Bonn, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- German Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Ingolstädter-Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany; Chair of Experimental Genetics, School of Life Science Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, Alte Akademie 8, 85354 Freising, Germany.
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