SELECTIVE KILLING OF CELLS WITH OXIDATIVE DEFECTS IN GALACTOSE MEDIUM - A SCREENING-TEST FOR AFFECTED PATIENT FIBROBLASTS
SELECTIVE KILLING OF CELLS WITH OXIDATIVE DEFECTS IN GALACTOSE MEDIUM - A SCREENING-TEST FOR AFFECTED PATIENT FIBROBLASTS
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DOI:
10.1007/bf01800243
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发表时间:
1992-01-01
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
ROBINSON, BH
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作者:
PETROVABENEDICT, R;BUNCIC, JR;ROBINSON, BH
It was shown a number of years ago that Chinese hamster (CH) fibroblasts with defects in mitochondrial respiration were able to keep up the energy charge within the celt and maintain normal growth rates, primarily by doubling the rates of conversion of glucose to lactic acid (Sodeberg et al t980; Day and Schemer t982). We have made similar observations in cultured skin fibrobtasts from patients with defects of the mitochondrial respiratory chain (Robinson et al 1986, 1987a). Substitution of galactose (5 mmol/L) for glucose in the culture medium was shown to be lethal for oxidative-deficient CH fibroblasts (Sodeberg et al 1980). We investigated the effects of galactose on the viability of a variety of cell lines from patients with different oxidative defects by subculturing the skin fibroblasts into~-MEM containing 5 mmol/L galactose. Cell lines used were as described by Robinson et al (1987b), Robinson et al (1990) and Gterum et al (t988). While control cell lines displayed a pattern of growth and survival no different from those grown in glucose medium, within 24 h of subculture no live cells survived from patients with severe neonatal complex I deficiency, cytochrome oxidase deficiency (Leigh disease), and multiple respiratory chain complex deficiency. Cells from patients with severe pyruvate dehydrogenase complex deficiency, complex I deficiency with Leigh disease, and partial cytochrome oxidase deficiency (Leigh disease) showed extremely poor growth with cell death after 2 weeks in culture. Cell lines from patients with partial deficiency of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, pyruvate carboxylase deficiency, liver-specific partial cytochrome oxidase deficiency, Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (homoplasmic for the mtDNA 11 778 mutation), and Kearns-Sayre syndrome showed no adverse effects of culture in galactose-containing medium. When these cell lines were reassessed by culture in a medium containing galactose plus 25# mol/L azide, the results were the same except that one of two cell lines tested with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) grew very poorly and died. The cell lines showing susceptibility to galactose metabolism appear to be those with the more overt or severe oxidative defects, and the extent of the susceptibiity appears to bear some relationship to the nature of the oxidative defect. Thus severe complex I deficiency, multiple respiratory chain deficiency and severe cytochrome oxidase deficiency cells are almost immediately killed in galactose medium, whereas