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. 1993 Jul 1;293(Pt 1):65–73. doi: 10.1042/bj2930065

Characterization of the expressed genes for subunit c of mitochondrial ATP synthase in sheep with ceroid lipofuscinosis.

S M Medd 1, J E Walker 1, R D Jolly 1
PMCID: PMC1134320  PMID: 8328973

Abstract

The human and bovine genomes each contain two expressed nuclear genes, called P1 and P2, for subunit c, a hydrophobic subunit of the membrane sector, Fo, of mitochondrial ATP synthase. Both P1 and P2 encode the same mature protein, but the associated mitochondrial import sequences are different. In sheep with the neurodegenerative disease ceroid lipofuscinosis, and also in humans with Batten's disease, unmodified subunit c accumulates in lysosome-derived organelles in a variety of tissues. However, the sequences of cDNAs for P1 and P2 from sheep with ceroid lipofuscinosis were identical to those in healthy control animals. Therefore, since there was no mutation in either of the mitochondrial import sequences of subunit c in the diseased animals, ceroid lipofuscinosis does not arise from changes in an import sequence causing mis-targeting of the c subunit to lysosomes. The levels of expression of P1 and P2 genes were approximately the same in diseased and healthy animals, and so the protein is unlikely to accumulate because of excessive transcription of either gene. Transcription of a spliced pseudogene related to P2 was detected in both a control animal and a sheep with ceroid lipofuscinosis. The transcripts encode amino acids 1-31 of the P2 mitochondrial targeting sequence. In the diseased animal, an arginine replaced a glutamine in the control sequence. However, restriction fragment analysis of genomic DNA from a further 12 sheep established that the sequence differences were not linked to ceroid lipofuscinosis.

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