1 Abstract It has been estimated that the mammalian mitochondrial proteome consists of ~1500 distinct proteins and approximately one quarter of them is still not fully characterized. One of these proteins is TMEM70, protein involved in the biogenesis of the eukaryotic F1Fo-ATP synthase. TMEM70 mutations cause isolated deficiency of ATP synthase often resulting in a fatal neonatal mitochondrial encephalocardiomyopathies in patients. To understand the molecular mechanism of TMEM70 action, we generated constitutive Tmem70 knockout mice, which led to embryonic lethal phenotype with disturbed ATP synthase biogenesis. Subsequently generated inducible Tmem70 mouse knockout was lethal by the week 8 post induction. It exhibited primarily impaired liver function, which contrasts with the predominantly cardiologic phenotype at disease onset in humans. Liver mitochondria revealed formation of labile ATP synthase subcomplexes lacking subunit c. Thus, in case of TMEM70 deficiency c-oligomer was not incorporated into ATP synthase, which led to critical impairment of mitochondrial energy provision, analogous to TMEM70 dysfunction in humans. In TMEM70 deficient models, the ATP synthase deficiency reached the 'threshold' for its pathologic presentation, which we quantified at 30 %. We observed compensatory increases in the...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:384528 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Kovalčíková, Jana |
| Contributors | Vrbacký, Marek, Červinková, Zuzana, Ješina, Pavel |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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