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ArticleHuman molecular genetics2015

Overexpression of the mitochondrial methyltransferase TFB1M in the mouse does not impact mitoribosomal methylation status or hearing.

Seungmin Lee, Simon Rose, Metodi D Metodiev, Lore Becker, Alexandra Vernaleken, Thomas Klopstock, Valerie Gailus-Durner, Helmut Fuchs, Martin Hrabě De Angelis, Stephen Douthwaite and 1 more

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Article in Human molecular genetics, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  12. Towards the Prevention of Aminoglycoside-Related Hearing Loss.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2017
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11 authors at 7 institutions in 4 countries.

Seungmin LeeDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Retzius väg 8, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden.
Simon RoseDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.
Metodi D MetodievINSERM U1163, Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Institut Imagine, 75015 Paris, France.
Lore BeckerGerman Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Munich/Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Baur-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Alexandra VernalekenGerman Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Munich/Neuherberg, Germany, Department of Neurology, Friedrich-Baur-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich, Germany.
Thomas KlopstockDepartment of Neurology, Friedrich-Baur-Institute, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich, Germany.
Valerie Gailus-DurnerGerman Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Munich/Neuherberg, Germany.
Helmut FuchsGerman Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Munich/Neuherberg, Germany.
Martin Hrabě De AngelisGerman Mouse Clinic, Institute of Experimental Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Munich/Neuherberg, Germany, German Center for Vertigo and Balance Disorders, Munich, Germany, Chair of Experimental Genetics, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), Ingostaedter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany and.
Stephen DouthwaiteDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.
Nils-Göran LarssonDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Retzius väg 8, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 9b, 50931 Cologne, Germany larsson@age.mpg.de.
Helmholtz Zentrum München · DEUniversity of Southern Denmark · DKDeutsches Diabetes-Zentrum e.V. · DEFriedrich Baur Stiftung · DEInserm · FRKarolinska Institutet · SEMax Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing · DE

Funding

European Research Council 268897
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mitochondrial dysfunction is a well-established cause of sensorineural deafness, but the pathophysiological events are poorly understood. Non-syndromic deafness and predisposition to aminoglycoside-induced deafness can be caused by specific mutations in the 12S rRNA gene of mtDNA and are thus maternally inherited traits. The pathophysiology induced by mtDNA mutations has traditionally been attributed to deficient oxidative phosphorylation, which causes energy crisis with functional impairment of multiple cellular processes. In contrast, it was recently reported that signaling induced by 'hypermethylation' of two conserved adenosines of 12S rRNA in the mitoribosome is of key pathophysiological importance in sensorineural deafness. In support for this concept, it was reported that overexpression of the essential mitochondrial methyltransferase TFB1M in the mouse was sufficient to induce mitoribosomal hypermethylation and deafness. At variance with this model, we show here that 12S rRNA is near fully methylated in vivo in the mouse and thus cannot be further methylated to any significant extent. Furthermore, bacterial artificial chromosome transgenic mice overexpressing TFB1M have no increase of 12S rRNA methylation levels and hear normally. We thus conclude that therapies directed against mitoribosomal methylation are unlikely to be beneficial to patients with sensorineural hearing loss or other types of mitochondrial disease.

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AnimalsDeafnessDNA, MitochondrialFemaleHearingHearing Loss, SensorineuralMaleMethylationMiceMice, TransgenicMitochondriaMitochondrial RibosomesPoint MutationReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionRNA, RibosomalTranscription FactorsDNA, MitochondrialRNA, RibosomalRNA, ribosomal, 12STfb1m protein, mouseTranscription Factors

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PMID26464487
PMCPMC4664167
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