Mitochondrial disorders

Curr Opin Neurol. 2000 Oct;13(5):527-32. doi: 10.1097/00019052-200010000-00004.

Abstract

The rate of advance of our understanding of mitochondrial pathology continues to accelerate. Trends in genotype-phenotype correlations in mitochondrial DNA mutations continue to be developed; the latest of these is the association of exercise intolerance with cytochrome b mutations and onset in infancy of multisystem disorders associated with cytochrome oxidase assembly defects. New models for mitochondrial disease are being developed. Drugs, toxins and deficiency of nuclear encoded proteins that are targeted at mitochondria are now recognized as important causes of secondary mitochondrial respiratory chain deficiency.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cytochrome-c Oxidase Deficiency
  • Frataxin
  • Friedreich Ataxia / genetics
  • HIV Infections / drug therapy
  • Humans
  • Iron-Binding Proteins*
  • Metabolism, Inborn Errors / genetics
  • Mitochondrial Myopathies / chemically induced*
  • Mitochondrial Myopathies / genetics*
  • Mitochondrial Myopathies / physiopathology
  • Pain / physiopathology
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / genetics
  • Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / adverse effects

Substances

  • Iron-Binding Proteins
  • Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
  • Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)