Human disease-associated mitochondrial mutations fixed in nonhuman primates

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 491-497

  De Magalhães, João Pedro ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bioinformatics; Brain; Longevity; Mitochondrial genome; Neurodegeneration

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMINID; INTELLIGENCE; LONGEVITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; PRIMATES; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VARIATION (GENETICS);

HOMINIDAE; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 26244459406     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-004-0258-6     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bodkin NL, Ortmeyer HK, Hansen BC (1995) Long-term dietary restriction in older-aged rhesus monkeys: effects on insulin resistance. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 50:B142-B147
2. de Magalhaes JP, Costa J, Toussaint O (2005) HAGR: the Human Ageing Genomic Resources. Nucleic Acids Res 33(Database Issue):D537-D543
3. DiMauro S, Schon EA (2003) Mitochondrial respiratory-chain diseases. N Engl J Med 348:2656-2668
4. Erwin JM, Hof PR (2002) Aging in nonhuman primates. Karger, Basel
5. Finch CE (1990) Longevity, senescence, and the genome. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, London
6. Gao L, Zhang J (2003) Why are some human disease-associated mutations fixed in mice? Trends Genet 19:678-681
7. Goldberg A, Wildman DE, Schmidt TR, Huttemann M, Goodman M, Weiss ML, Grossman LI (2003) Adaptive evolution of cytochrome c oxidase subunit VIII in anthropoid primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:5873-5878
8. Grossman LI, Schmidt TR, Wildman DE, Goodman M (2001) Molecular evolution of aerobic energy metabolism in primates. Mol Phylogenet Evol 18:26-36
9. Hamilton WD (1966) The moulding of senescence by natural selection. J Theor Biol 12:12-45
10. Harman D (1972) The biologic clock: The mitochondria? J Am Geriatr Soc 20:145-147
11. Holleschau AM, Rathbun WB (1994) The effects of age on glutathione peroxidase and glutathione reductase activities in lenses of Old World simians and prosimians. Curr Eye Res 13:331-336
12. Kee CS, Hung LF, Qiao Y, Habib A, Smith EL 3rd (2002) Prevalence of astigmatism in infant monkeys. Vision Res 42:1349-1359
13. Kern AD, Kondrashov FA (2004) Mechanisms and convergence of compensatory evolution in mammalian mitochondrial tRNAs. Nat Genet 36:1207-1212
14. Kondrashov AS, Sunyaev S, Kondrashov FA (2002) Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities in protein evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99:14878-14883
15. Korpelainen H (1999) Genetic maternal effects on human life span through the inheritance of mitochondrial DNA. Hum Hered 49:183-185
16. Medawar PB (1952) An unsolved problem of biology. H.K. Lewis, London
17. Munscher C, Muller-Hocker J, Kadenbach B (1993) Human aging is associated with various point mutations in tRNA genes of mitochondrial DNA. Biol Chem Hoppe Seyler 374:1099-1104
18. Nicholls D (2002) Mitochondrial bioenergetics, aging, and aging-related disease. Sci Aging Knowledge Environ 2002:pe12
19. Parker ST (1990) Why big brains are so rare: energy costs of intelligence and brain size in anthropoid primates. In: Parker ST, Gibson KR (eds). Language and intelligence in monkeys and apes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp 129-156
20. Rathbun WB, Holleschau AM (1992) The effects of age on glutathione synthesis enzymes in lenses of Old World simians and prosimians. Curr Eye Res 11:601-607
21. Ross OA, McCormack R, Curran MD, Duguid RA, Barnett YA, Rea IM, Middleton D (2001) Mitochondrial DNA polymorphism: its role in longevity of the Irish population. Exp Gerontol 36:1161-1178
22. Schmolesky MT, Wang Y, Pu M, Leventhal AG (2000) Degradation of stimulus selectivity of visual cortical cells in senescent rhesus monkeys. Nat Neurosci 3:384-390
23. Spear PD, Moore RJ, Kim CB, Xue JT, Tumosa N (1994) Effects of aging on the primate visual system: spatial and temporal processing by lateral geniculate neurons in young adult and old rhesus monkeys. J Neurophysiol 72:402-420
24. Torre P 3rd, Fowler CG (2000) Age-related changes in auditory function of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Hear Res 142:131-140
25. Thompson JD, Higgins DG, Gibson TJ (1994) CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res 22:4673-4680
26. Trifunovic A, Wredenberg A, Falkenberg M, Spelbrink JN, Rovio AT, Bruder CE, Bohlooly YM, Gidlof S, Oldfors A, Wibom R, Tornell J, Jacobs HT, Larsson NG (2004) Premature ageing in mice expressing defective mitochondrial DNA polymerase. Nature 429:417-423
27. Waterston RH, Lindblad-Toh K, Birney E, et al. (2002) Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome. Nature 420:520-562
28. Williams GC (1957) Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence. Evolution 11:398-411
29. Yip YL, Scheib H, Diemand AV, Gattiker A, Famiglietti LM, Gasteiger E, Bairoch A (2004) The Swiss-Prot variant page and the ModSNP database: a resource for sequence and structure information on human protein variants. Hum Mutat 23:464-470
30. Yu Y, Shi J, Shang S, Teng X, Li W, Wu Z (2001) [Mutations of mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene in type 2 diabetes]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi 18:388-390
31. Zhao H, Li R, Wang Q, Yan Q, Deng JH, Han D, Bai Y, Young WY, Guan MX (2004) Maternally inherited aminoglycoside-induced and nonsyndromic deafness is associated with the novel C1494T mutation in the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene in a large Chinese family. Am J Hum Genet 74:139-152