Mitochondrial damage and cholesterol storage in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells with silencing of UBIAD1 gene expression

Heterozygous mutations in the UBIAD1 gene cause Schnyder corneal dystrophy characterized by abnormal cholesterol and phospholipid deposits in the cornea. Ubiad1 protein was recently identified as Golgi prenyltransferase responsible for biosynthesis of vitamin K2 and CoQ10, a key protein in the mitoc...

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Autores principales: Morales, Carlos R., Grigoryeva, Lubov S., Pan, Xuefang, Bruno, Luigi, Hickson, Gilles, Ngo, Michael H., McMaster, Christopher R., Samuels, Mark E., Pshezhetsky, Alexey V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27896114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ymgmr.2014.09.001
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Sumario:Heterozygous mutations in the UBIAD1 gene cause Schnyder corneal dystrophy characterized by abnormal cholesterol and phospholipid deposits in the cornea. Ubiad1 protein was recently identified as Golgi prenyltransferase responsible for biosynthesis of vitamin K2 and CoQ10, a key protein in the mitochondrial electron transport chain. Our study shows that silencing UBIAD1 in cultured human hepatocellular carcinoma cells causes dramatic morphological changes and cholesterol storage in the mitochondria, emphasizing an important role of UBIAD1 in mitochondrial function.

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