Fessel 2013 Abstract IOC75

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Fessel JP (2013) Structural, functional, and signaling abnormalities in mitochondria and multiple organ systems in a novel zebrafish model of multiple Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD). Mitochondr Physiol Network 18.03.

Link: IOC75 Open Access

Seok-Hyung K, Scott SA, Bennett MJ, Carson RP, Fessel JP, Brown HA, Ess KC (2013)

Event: IOC75

Multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) is an autosomal recessive disorder of mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation with variable clinical presentations, ranging from the lethal neonatal form with congenital developmental abnormalities (type I) to neonatal hypoglycemia and hypoketosis without developmental defects (type II) to a later onset form with myopathy (type 3). MADD is due to mutations in the electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF) system that moves electrons from fatty acid beta oxidation into the electron transport chain, with specific mutations in humans identified in ETFA, ETFB, and ETF dehydrogenase [1, 2]. A mechanistic understanding of MADD has been hampered by a paucity of animal models [3]. In a forward mutagenesis screen in zebrafish, we identified a novel mutant termed dark xavier (dxavu463), shown by sequencing to be a mutation in the etfa gene, that exhibits structural developmental abnormalities in brain, liver, and kidney. Ultrastructural analyses showed massively swollen mitochondria with effacement of cristae. Consistent with this, oxygen consumption measurements of intact wild-type and dxavu463 zebrafish showed a significant reduction in basal oxygen consumption in the mutants compared to wild-type siblings. Mutants were shown to have substantial alterations in lipid metabolism and pathological lipid deposition in multiple tissues. In the dxavu463 mutants, mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) signaling was shown to be increased, and the disease phenotype could be partially ameliorated with rapamycin treatment. Interestingly, we found that maternal overfeeding would substantially exacerbate the severity of the MADD-like phenotype in offspring. Taken together, these findings point to novel avenues of inquiry for further mechanistic investigations as well as potential new therapeutic approaches for this devastating disease.

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Affiliations and author contributions

Seok-Hyung Kim1, Sarah A. Scott2, Michael J. Bennett3, Robert P. Carson1, Joshua Fessel4,*, H. Alex Brown2, and Kevin C. Ess1

  1. Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232 USA
  2. Department of Pharmacology, The Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232 USA
  3. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
  4. Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232 USA

*Presenting author


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