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Four patients in one generation of a multiply consanguineous pedigree died with cardiomyopathy, cataracts, and lactic acidemia. Postmortem heart and skeletal muscle tissues from one patient were analyzed. A low (12% control) activity of NADH-CoQ reductase (complex I) in heart and normal activity in skeletal muscle mitochondria was found. Cultured skin fibroblasts obtained from two individuals in the pedigree showed elevated lactate to pyruvate ratios in the range of 2 to 3.5 times normal and decreased complex I + III activity (42 and 54% of control activities) in isolated mitochondria. Western blot analysis and enzymatic assay showed normal levels of CuZn-superoxide dismutase, but grossly elevated levels of the mitochondrial Mn-superoxide dismutase. Southern blot analysis in heart muscle cells from the patient tested revealed multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions which indicate free oxygen radical damage. We hypothesize that a nuclear-encoded defect in the respiratory chain is responsible for excessive free oxygen radical production in these infants which contributes to the prenatal onset of cardiomyopathy and cataracts.

Familial Cardiomyopathy with Cataracts and Lactic Acidosis: A Defect in Complex I (NADH-Dehydrogenase) of the Mitochondria Respiratory Chain