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    Mutations in the substrate binding glycine-rich loop of the mitochondrial processing peptidase-α protein (PMPCA) cause a severe mitochondrial disease
    (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2016) Joshi, Mugdha; Anselm, Irina; Shi, Jiahai; Bale, Tejus A.; Towne, Meghan; Schmitz-Abe, Klaus; Crowley, Laura; Giani, Felix C.; Kazerounian, Shideh; Markianos, Kyriacos; Lidov, Hart; Folkerth, Rebecca D.; Sankaran, Vijay; Agrawal, Pankaj
    We describe a large Lebanese family with two affected members, a young female proband and her male cousin, who had multisystem involvement including profound global developmental delay, severe hypotonia and weakness, respiratory insufficiency, blindness, and lactic acidemia—findings consistent with an underlying mitochondrial disorder. Whole-exome sequencing was performed on DNA from the proband and both parents. The proband and her cousin carried compound heterozygous mutations in the PMPCA gene that encodes for α-mitochondrial processing peptidase (α-MPP), a protein likely involved in the processing of mitochondrial proteins. The variants were located close to and postulated to affect the substrate binding glycine-rich loop of the α-MPP protein. Functional assays including immunofluorescence and western blot analysis on patient's fibroblasts revealed that these variants reduced α-MPP levels and impaired frataxin production and processing. We further determined that those defects could be rescued through the expression of exogenous wild-type PMPCA cDNA. Our findings link defective α-MPP protein to a severe mitochondrial disease.
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    AIFM1 mutation presenting with fatal encephalomyopathy and mitochondrial disease in an infant
    (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2017) Morton, Sarah; Prabhu, Sanjay; Lidov, Hart; Shi, Jiahai; Anselm, Irina; Brownstein, Catherine; Bainbridge, Matthew N.; Beggs, Alan; Vargas, Sara; Agrawal, Pankaj
    Apoptosis-inducing factor mitochondrion-associated 1 (AIFM1), encoded by the gene AIFM1, has roles in electron transport, apoptosis, ferredoxin metabolism, reactive oxygen species generation, and immune system regulation. Here we describe a patient with a novel AIFM1 variant presenting unusually early in life with mitochondrial disease, rapid deterioration, and death. Autopsy, at the age of 4 mo, revealed features of mitochondrial encephalopathy, myopathy, and involvement of peripheral nerves with axonal degeneration. In addition, there was microvesicular steatosis in the liver, thymic noninvolution, follicular bronchiolitis, and pulmonary arterial medial hypertrophy. This report adds to the clinical and pathological spectrum of disease related to AIFM1 mutations and provides insights into the role of AIFM1 in cellular function.