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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-8-7
pubmed:abstractText
Three patients from a large consanguineous family, and one unrelated patient had exercise intolerance since early childhood and improved by supplementation with a high dosage of riboflavin. This was confirmed by higher endurance power in exercise testing. Riboflavin had been given because complex I, which contains riboflavin in FMN, one of its prosthetic groups, had a very low activity in muscle. Histochemistry showed an increase of subsarcolemmal mitochondria. The low complex I activity contrasted with an increase of the activities of succinate dehydrogenase, succinate-cytochrome c oxidoreductase and cytochrome c oxidase. Isolated mitochondria from these muscle specimens proved deficient in oxidizing pyruvate plus malate and other NAD(+)-linked substrates, but oxidized succinate and ascorbate at equal or higher levels than controls. Two years later a second biopsy was taken in one of the patients, and the activity of complex I had increased from 16% to 47% of the average activity in controls. In the four biopsies, cytochrome c oxidase activity correlated negatively with age. We suspect that this is due to reactive oxygen species generated by the proliferating mitochondria and peroxidizing unsaturated fatty acids of cardiolipin. Three of the four patients had low blood carnitine, and all were found to have hypocarnitinemic family members.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0006-3002
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
24
pubmed:volume
1271
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
75-83
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Biopsy, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Carnitine, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Child, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Consanguinity, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Electron Transport Complex IV, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Fatigue, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Female, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Male, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Mitochondria, Muscle, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Muscle, Skeletal, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-NAD(P)H Dehydrogenase (Quinone), pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Riboflavin, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Sarcolemma, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Succinate Cytochrome c Oxidoreductase, pubmed-meshheading:7599230-Succinate Dehydrogenase
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
Riboflavin-responsive complex I deficiency.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry (Cardiovascular Research Institute, COEUR), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't