cellular
• heart mitochondria from 16-week-old mice exhibit an isolated deficiency in mitochondrial electron transport complex I (NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase) activity
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• proteomic analysis of 16-week-old hearts revealed mitochondrial dysfunction likely caused by reduced OXPHOS subunit levels
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• heart and liver mitochondria from 16-week-old mice show an alteration in de novo translation, with ND5 (mitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 5) slightly upregulated, probably due to increased mt:Nd5 transcript levels
• however, the impact is mild, suggesting that adequate translation can still occur even in the absence of a STOP codon and poly(A) tail
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homeostasis/metabolism
• mitochondrial mRNA steady-state levels of mt:Atp8/6 and mt:Nd5 (which require non-canonical processing i.e. not separated by tRNAs) are significantly upregulated in the heart and liver of 16-week-old mice, whereas mt:tRNA levels remain mostly unchanged
• non-canonical transcripts mt:Nd5 and mt:Atp8/6 show a decreased mitochondrial poly(A) tail (MPAT) length in heart samples, whereas MPAT length is unaffected in canonically processed transcripts (mt:Nd4l/4 and mt:Nd2)
• pre-treatment with either calf-intestinal phosphatase (CIP) or polynucleotide kinase (PNK) followed by MPAT length assays showed accumulation of non-polyadenylated 3 phosphates on mt:Nd5 and mt:Atp8/6 in heart, liver, skeletal muscle and kidney samples, suggesting that ANGEL2 phosphatase activity is required for their hydrolysis and the maturation of mRNAs that undergo non-canonical processing
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• heart and liver mitochondria from 16-week-old mice show an alteration in de novo translation, with ND5 (mitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 5) slightly upregulated, probably due to increased mt:Nd5 transcript levels
• however, the impact is mild, suggesting that adequate translation can still occur even in the absence of a STOP codon and poly(A) tail
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mortality/aging
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• mice are born at normal Mendelian proportions and survive to at least 15 months of age without apparent external phenotypes
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