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CELLULAR AND MITOCHONDRIAL METABOLISM

Inherited complex I deficiency is associated with faster protein diffusion in the matrix of moving mitochondria

¹Department of Biochemistry, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, ²Microscopical Imaging Centre, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, ³Department of Paediatrics, Nijmegen Center for Mitochondrial Disorders, and ⁴Department of Cell Biology, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; ⁵Department of General Pediatrics, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany; and ⁶MicroSpectroscopy Centre, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Submitted 13 February 2008 ; accepted in final form 17 March 2008

Mitochondria continuously change shape, position, and matrix configuration for optimal metabolite exchange. It is well established that changes in mitochondrial metabolism influence mitochondrial shape and matrix configuration. We demonstrated previously that inhibition of mitochondrial complex I (CI or NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) by rotenone accelerated matrix protein diffusion and decreased the fraction and velocity of moving mitochondria. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between inherited CI deficiency, mitochondrial shape, mobility, and matrix protein diffusion. To this end, we analyzed fibroblasts of two children that represented opposite extremes in a cohort of 16 patients, with respect to their residual CI activity and mitochondrial shape. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) revealed no relationship between residual CI activity, mitochondrial shape, the fraction of moving mitochondria, their velocity, and the rate of matrix-targeted enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (mitoEYFP) diffusion. However, mitochondrial velocity and matrix protein diffusion in moving mitochondria were two to three times higher in patient cells than in control cells. Nocodazole inhibited mitochondrial movement without altering matrix EYFP diffusion, suggesting that both activities are mutually independent. Unexpectedly, electron microscopy analysis revealed no differences in mitochondrial ultrastructure between control and patient cells. It is discussed that the matrix of a moving mitochondrion in the CI-deficient state becomes less dense, allowing faster metabolite diffusion, and that fibroblasts of CI-deficient patients become more glycolytic, allowing a higher mitochondrial velocity.

NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase deficiency; human skin fibroblasts; fluorescence correlation spectroscopy; mitochondrial motility

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