title: Allotopic expression of ATP6 in the mouse as a transgenic model of mitochondrial disease.
abstract: Progress in animal modeling of polymorphisms and mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is not as developed as nuclear transgenesis due to a host of cellular and physiological distinctions. mtDNA mutation modeling is of critical importance as mutations in the mitochondrial genome give rise to a variety of pathological conditions and play a contributing role in many others. Nuclear localization and transcription of mtDNA genes followed by cytoplasmic translation and transport into mitochondria (allotopic expression, AE) provide an opportunity to create in vivo modeling of a targeted mutation in mitochondrial genes and has been suggested as a strategy for gene replacement therapy in patients harboring mitochondrial DNA mutations. Here, we use our AE approach to transgenic mouse modeling of the pathogenic human T8993G mutation in mtATP6 as a case study for designing AE animal models.
authors: Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Oswego, NY, USA.
authors: David A
authors: DA
authors: Dunn
authors: Carl A
authors: CA
authors: Pinkert
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D001483:Base Sequence; D003062:Codon; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D015870:Gene Expression; D005822:Genetic Vectors / Q000235:genetics; D005838:Genotype; D051379:Mice; D008822:Mice, Transgenic; D028361:Mitochondrial Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D025261:Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D003062:Codon; D025261:Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases; C501006:mt-Atp6 protein, mouse