Mitochondrial respiration and respiration-associated proteins in cell lines created through Parkinson's subject mitochondrial transfer

• Published in: Journal of neurochemistry Vol. 113; no. 3; pp. 674 - 682
• Main Authors: Esteves, A. Raquel, Lu, Jane, Rodova, Mariana, Onyango, Isaac, Lezi, E, Dubinsky, Richard, Lyons, Kelly E, Pahwa, Rajesh, Burns, Jeffrey M, Cardoso, Sandra M, Swerdlow, Russell H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.05.2010; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Aerobiosis; Aerobiosis - physiology; Aged; Anaerobiosis; Anaerobiosis - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Blotting, Western; Cell Line; Cell Respiration; Cell Respiration - physiology; Citrate (si)-Synthase; Citrate (si)-Synthase - metabolism; cybrids; Cytoplasm; Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases; Electron Transport Complex I; Electron Transport Complex I - metabolism; Enzyme Activation; Enzyme Activation - physiology; enzymology; Humans; Hybrid Cells; Kinetics; Medical sciences; metabolism; Middle Aged; Mitochondria; Mitochondria - enzymology; Mitochondria - metabolism; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Nervous system as a whole; Neurochemistry; Neurology; NF-kappa B; NF-kappa B - metabolism; Oxygen Consumption; Oxygen Consumption - physiology; Parkinson disease; Parkinson Disease - metabolism; Parkinson Disease - pathology; Parkinson's disease; pathology; physiology; Protons; Respiration; Sirtuin 1; Sirtuin 1 - metabolism; Nervous system diseases; Oxygen; Parkinson's disease; Parkinson disease; Oxygen consumption; respiration; Protein; Cerebral disorder; cybrids; Electrodes; Mitochondria; Platelet; Cell line; Dysfunction; Central nervous system disease; Proton; Degenerative disease; Models; Basal cell; Extrapyramidal syndrome; Cell respiration
• ISSN: 0022-3042; 1471-4159; 1471-4159
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.06631.x

J. Neurochem. (2010) 113, 674-682. Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with perturbed mitochondrial function. Studies of cytoplasmic hybrid (cybrid) cell lines containing mitochondria from PD subjects suggest complex I dysfunction in particular is a relatively upstream biochemical defect. To evaluate potential downstream consequences of PD mitochondrial dysfunction, we used a cybrid approach to model PD mitochondrial dysfunction; our cybrid cell lines were generated via transfer of PD or control subject platelet mitochondria to mtDNA-depleted NT2 cells. To confirm our PD cybrid mitochondria did indeed differ from control cybrid mitochondria we measured complex I Vmax activities. Consistent with other PD cybrid reports, relative to control cybrid cell lines the PD cybrid cell line mean complex I Vmax activity was reduced. In this validated model, we used an oxygen electrode to characterize PD cybrid mitochondrial respiration. Although whole cell basal oxygen consumption was comparable between the PD and control cybrid groups, the proton leak was increased and maximum respiratory capacity was decreased in the PD cybrids. PD cybrids also had reduced SIRT1 phosphorylation, reduced peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator-1α levels, and increased NF-kB activation. We conclude mitochondrial respiration and pathways influenced by aerobic metabolism are altered in NT2 cybrid cell lines generated through transfer of PD subject platelet mitochondria.