HUMAN MITOCHONDRIAL tRNA MUTATIONS IN MATERNALLY INHERITED DEAFNESS

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    摘要 MutationsinmitochondrialtRNAgeneshavebeenshowntobeassociatedwithmaternallyinheritedsyn-dromicandnon-syndromicdeafness.Amongthose,mutationssuchastRNALeu(UUR)3243A>Gassociatedwithsyndromicdeafnessareoftenpresentinheteroplasmy,andthenon-syndromicdeafness-associatedtRNAmu-tationsincludingtRNASer(UCN)7445A>Gareofteninhomoplasmyorinhighlevelsofheteroplasmy.ThesetRNAmutationsaretheprimaryfactorsunderlyingthedevelopmentofhearingloss.However,othertRNAmutationssuchastRNAThr15927G>AandtRNASer(UCN)7444G>Aareinsufficienttoproduceadeafnessphe-notype,butalwaysactinsynergywiththeprimarymitochondrialDNAmutations,andcanmodulatetheirphenotypicmanifestation.ThesetRNAmutationsmayalterthestructureandfunctionofthecorrespondingmitochondrialtRNAsandcausefailuresintRNAsmetabolism.Thereby,theimpairmentofmitochondrialproteinsynthesisandsubsequentdefectsinrespirationcausedbythesetRNAmutations,resultsinmitochon-drialdysfunctionsandeventuallyleadstothedevelopmentofhearingloss.Here,wesummarizedthedeaf-ness-associatedmitochondrialtRNAmutationsanddiscussedthepathophysiologyofthesemitochondrialtRNAmutations,andwehopethesedatawillprovideafoundationfortheearlydiagnosis,management,andtreatmentofmaternallyinheriteddeafness.
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    出版日期 2013年01月11日(中国Betway体育网页登陆平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)
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