title: Cytochrome C oxidase-deficient mitochondria in mitochondrial myopathy.
abstract: Electron microscopic cytochemistry was used to evaluate the behavior of cytochrome c oxidase (COX) in cultured skin fibroblasts from 4 patients with decreased COX activity (Leigh encephalopathy, fatal infantile COX deficiency). In patients with Leigh encephalopathy, all mitochondria reacted to COX staining either equivocally or negatively, indicating that all mitochondria were abnormal in these patients. In 1 patient with fatal infantile COX deficiency, intercellular heterogeneity of mitochondria was observed by COX staining. In another patient with fatal infantile COX deficiency, intracellular heterogeneity of mitochondria was observed. Patients with Leigh encephalopathy appeared to have a different type of mitochondrial COX deficiency than those with fatal infantile COX deficiency. Our result suggest that these 2 diseases may result from different genetic mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Haginoya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyabayashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iinuma
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Okino
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maesaka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tada
mesh_terms: D000140:Acidosis, Lactic / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology; D001928:Brain Diseases, Metabolic / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D030401:Cytochrome-c Oxidase Deficiency; D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007888:Leigh Disease / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D008931:Mitochondria, Muscle / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009132:Muscles / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000201:enzymology / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D003576:Electron Transport Complex IV