Low catalytic activity is insufficient to induce disease pathology in triosephosphate isomerase deficiency
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Joanna Segal Michael Muelleder Antje Krüger Thure Adler Manuela Scholze-Wittler Lore Becker Julia Calzada-Wack Lillian Garrett Sabine M Hölter Birgit Rathkolb Jan Rozman Ildiko Racz Ralf Fischer Dirk H Busch Frauke Neff Martin Klingenspor Thomas Klopstock Nana-Maria Grüning Steve Michel Beata Lukaszewska-McGreal Ingo Voigt Ludger Hartmann Bernd Timmermann Hans Lehrach Eckhard Wolf Wolfgang Wurst Valérie Gailus-Durner Helmut Fuchs Martin H de Angelis Heinrich Schrewe Mariia Yuneva Markus Ralser Toggle all authors (32)
Abstract
Triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) deficiency is a fatal genetic disorder characterized by haemolytic anaemia and neurological dysfunction. Although the enzyme defect in TPI was discovered in the 1960s, the exact etiology of the disease is still debated. Some aspects indicate the disease could be caused by insufficient enzyme activity, whereas other observations indicate it could be a protein misfolding disease with tissue-specific differences in TPI activity. We generated a mouse model in which exchange of a conserved catalytic amino acid residue (isoleucine to valine, Ile170Val) reduces TPI specific activity without affecting the stability of the protein dimer. TPIIle170Val/Ile170Val mice exhibit an ~85% reduction in TPI activity consistently across all examined tissues, which is a stronger average activity decline than observed in patients or symptomatic mouse models that carry structural defect mutant alleles. While monitoring protein expression levels revealed no evidence for protein instability, metabolite quantification indicated that glycolysis is affected by the active site mutation. TPIIle170Val/Ile170Val mice develop normally and show none of the disease symptoms associated with TPI deficiency. Therefore, without the stability defect that penetrates in a tissue-specific manner, a strong decline in TPI catalytic activity is not sufficient to explain the pathological onset of TPI deficiency. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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Volume 42
Issue number 5
Pages 839-849
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