PUBLICATION
Imbalanced mitochondrial function provokes heterotaxy via aberrant ciliogenesis
- Authors
- Burkhalter, M.D., Sridhar, A., Sampaio, P., Jacinto, R., Burczyk, M.S., Donow, C., Angenendt, M., Investigators, C.N.F.C.H.D., Hempel, M., Walther, P., Pennekamp, P., Omran, H., Lopes, S.S., Ware, S.M., Philipp, M.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-190517-2
- Date
- 2019
- Source
- The Journal of Clinical Investigation 130: 2841-2855 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Lopes, Susana
- Keywords
- Cardiology, Development, Genetic variation, Mitochondria, Organogenesis
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cilia*/genetics
- Cilia*/metabolism
- Cilia*/pathology
- DNA, Mitochondrial*
- Female
- Genome, Human*
- Heterotaxy Syndrome*/genetics
- Heterotaxy Syndrome*/metabolism
- Heterotaxy Syndrome*/pathology
- Humans
- Male
- Mitochondria*
- Mitochondrial Diseases*/genetics
- Mitochondrial Diseases*/metabolism
- Mitochondrial Diseases*/pathology
- Zebrafish
- PubMed
- 31094706 Full text @ Journal of Clin. Invest.
Citation
Burkhalter, M.D., Sridhar, A., Sampaio, P., Jacinto, R., Burczyk, M.S., Donow, C., Angenendt, M., Investigators, C.N.F.C.H.D., Hempel, M., Walther, P., Pennekamp, P., Omran, H., Lopes, S.S., Ware, S.M., Philipp, M. (2019) Imbalanced mitochondrial function provokes heterotaxy via aberrant ciliogenesis. The Journal of Clinical Investigation. 130:2841-2855.
Abstract
About 1% of all newborns are affected by congenital heart disease (CHD). Recent findings identify aberrantly functioning cilia as a possible source for CHD. Faulty cilia also prevent the development of proper left-right asymmetry and cause heterotaxy, the incorrect placement of visceral organs. Intriguingly, signaling cascades such as mTor that influence mitochondrial biogenesis also affect ciliogenesis, and can cause heterotaxy-like phenotypes in zebrafish. Here, we identify levels of mitochondrial function as a determinant for ciliogenesis and a cause for heterotaxy. We detected reduced mitochondrial DNA content in biopsies of heterotaxy patients. Manipulation of mitochondrial function revealed a reciprocal influence on ciliogenesis and affected cilia-dependent processes in zebrafish, human fibroblasts and Tetrahymena thermophila. Exome analysis of heterotaxy patients revealed an increased burden of rare damaging variants in mitochondria-associated genes as compared to 1000 Genome controls. Knockdown of such candidate genes caused cilia elongation and ciliopathy-like phenotypes in zebrafish, which could not be rescued by RNA encoding damaging rare variants identified in heterotaxy patients. Our findings suggest that ciliogenesis is coupled to the abundance and function of mitochondria. Our data further reveal disturbed mitochondrial function as an underlying cause for heterotaxy-linked CHD and provide a mechanism for unexplained phenotypes of mitochondrial disease.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping