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标题：Apparent mtDNA heteroplasmy in Alzheimer’s disease patients and in normals due to PCR amplification of nucleus-embedded mtDNA pseudogenes
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作者：Michio Hirano ; Alexander Shtilbans ; Richard Mayeux 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1997
卷号：94
期号：26
页码：14894-14899
DOI：10.1073/pnas.94.26.14894
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：In an unprecedented finding, Davis et al. [Davis, R. E., Miller, S., Herrnstadt, C., Ghosh, S. S., Fahy, E., Shinobu, L. A., Galasko, D., Thal, L. J., Beal, M. F., Howell, N. & Parker, W. D., Jr. (1997) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94, 4526-4531] used an unusual DNA isolation method to show that healthy adults harbor a specific population of mutated mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (COX) genes that coexist with normal mtDNAs. They reported that this heteroplasmic population was present at a level of 10-15% in the blood of normal individuals and at a significantly higher level (20-30%) in patients with sporadic Alzheimer's disease. We provide compelling evidence that the DNA isolation method employed resulted in the coamplification of authentic mtDNA-encoded COX genes together with highly similar COX-like sequences embedded in nuclear DNA ("mtDNA pseudogenes"). We conclude that the observed heteroplasmy is an artifact.
关键词：cytochrome c oxidase ; respiratory chain ; oxidative phosphorylation ; mitochondria