Mitochondrial diseases are caused by variants in both mitochondrial and nuclear genomes.A nuclear gene HPDL(4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase-like),which encodes an intermembrane mitochondrial protein,has been recen...Mitochondrial diseases are caused by variants in both mitochondrial and nuclear genomes.A nuclear gene HPDL(4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase-like),which encodes an intermembrane mitochondrial protein,has been recently implicated in causing a neurodegenerative disease characterized by pediatric-onset spastic movement phenotypes.Here,we report six Chinese patients with bi-allelic HPDL pathogenic variants from four unrelated families showing neuropathic symptoms of variable severity,including developmental delay/intellectual disability,spasm,and hypertonia.Seven different pathogenic variants are identified,of which five are novel.Both fibroblasts and immortalized lymphocytes derived from patients show impaired mitochondrial respiratory function,which is also observed in HPDL-knockdown(KD)He La cells.In these He La cells,overexpression of a wild-type HPDL gene can rescue the respiratory phenotype of oxygen consumption rate.In addition,a decreased activity of the oxidative phosphorylation(OXPHOS)complex II is observed in patient-derived lymphocytes and HPDL-KD He La cells,further supporting an essential role of HPDL in the mitochondrial respiratory chain.Collectively,our data expand the clinical and mutational spectra of this mitochondrial neuropathy and further delineate the possible disease mechanism involving the impairment of the OXPHOS complex II activity due to the bi-allelic inactivations of HPDL.展开更多
Protein self-labeling tags achieve selective fusion and labeling of target proteins through genetic coding technology,but require exogenous fluorescent probes with fluorogenicity for protein tag binding to have the pe...Protein self-labeling tags achieve selective fusion and labeling of target proteins through genetic coding technology,but require exogenous fluorescent probes with fluorogenicity for protein tag binding to have the performance of wash-free fluorescence imaging in live cells.In this paper,we reported a fluorogenic probe 1 capable of ratiometric fluorescence recognition of SNAP-tag proteins.In this probe,the O6-benzylguanine derivative of 3-hydroxy-1,8-naphthalimide underwent a selective covalent linkage reaction with SNAP-tag protein.The hydroxyl group on the naphthalimide fluorophore formed a hydrogen bond with the functional group near the protein cavity.The excited state proton transfer occurred after illumination,to obtain the ratio fluorescence signal from blue emission to red emission,realizing the wash-free fluorescence imaging of the target proteins.展开更多
基金funded by the Precision Medical Research of National Key Research and Development Program(2018YFC1002200,2019YFC1005100 to Y.Yu,2018YFC1002400 to Y.Sun,and 2018YFC1002501 to Y.Shen)National Natural Science Foundation of China(81873633 and 82071276 to Y.Shen,81830071 to J.Lyu,81873724 to Y.Sun,and 82070914 and 81873671 to Y.Yu)+7 种基金Shanghai Shen Kang Hospital Development Center(SHDC12017109 to Y.Yu)the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission(19140904500 to Y.Yu)Jiaotong University Cross Biomedical Engineering(YG2017MS72 to Y.Yu)the“Eastern Scholar”Fundthe“Guangxi Bagui Scholar”fund(to Y.Shen)the Major Research Plan of the Provincial Science and Technology Foundation of Guangxi(AB16380214 to Y.Shen)Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Health Commission(shslczdzk05702,to Y.Yu and Y.Sun)Municipal Education Commission-Gaofeng Clinical Medicine Grant Support(20191908,to Y.Yu)。
文摘Mitochondrial diseases are caused by variants in both mitochondrial and nuclear genomes.A nuclear gene HPDL(4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase-like),which encodes an intermembrane mitochondrial protein,has been recently implicated in causing a neurodegenerative disease characterized by pediatric-onset spastic movement phenotypes.Here,we report six Chinese patients with bi-allelic HPDL pathogenic variants from four unrelated families showing neuropathic symptoms of variable severity,including developmental delay/intellectual disability,spasm,and hypertonia.Seven different pathogenic variants are identified,of which five are novel.Both fibroblasts and immortalized lymphocytes derived from patients show impaired mitochondrial respiratory function,which is also observed in HPDL-knockdown(KD)He La cells.In these He La cells,overexpression of a wild-type HPDL gene can rescue the respiratory phenotype of oxygen consumption rate.In addition,a decreased activity of the oxidative phosphorylation(OXPHOS)complex II is observed in patient-derived lymphocytes and HPDL-KD He La cells,further supporting an essential role of HPDL in the mitochondrial respiratory chain.Collectively,our data expand the clinical and mutational spectra of this mitochondrial neuropathy and further delineate the possible disease mechanism involving the impairment of the OXPHOS complex II activity due to the bi-allelic inactivations of HPDL.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22225806,22078314 and 22278394)Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics(Nos.DICPI202227 and DICPI202142)。
文摘Protein self-labeling tags achieve selective fusion and labeling of target proteins through genetic coding technology,but require exogenous fluorescent probes with fluorogenicity for protein tag binding to have the performance of wash-free fluorescence imaging in live cells.In this paper,we reported a fluorogenic probe 1 capable of ratiometric fluorescence recognition of SNAP-tag proteins.In this probe,the O6-benzylguanine derivative of 3-hydroxy-1,8-naphthalimide underwent a selective covalent linkage reaction with SNAP-tag protein.The hydroxyl group on the naphthalimide fluorophore formed a hydrogen bond with the functional group near the protein cavity.The excited state proton transfer occurred after illumination,to obtain the ratio fluorescence signal from blue emission to red emission,realizing the wash-free fluorescence imaging of the target proteins.
