RESEARCH ARTICLE A Mouse Model of L-2-Hydroxyglutaric Aciduria, a Disorder of Metabolite Repair Rim Rzem1, Younes Achouri1‡, Etienne Marbaix2‡, Olivier Schakman3‡, Elsa Wiame1, Sandrine Marie4, Philippe Gailly3, Marie-Françoise Vincent4, Maria Veiga-da-Cunha1*, Emile Van Schaftingen1* 1 Welbio and Laboratory of Physiological Chemistry, de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 2 Cell Unit, de Duve Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 3 Laboratory of Cell Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium, 4 Laboratory of Metabolic Diseases, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium ‡ These authors have equal contribution as second authors. *
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[email protected] (EVS) Abstract OPEN ACCESS The purpose of the present work was to progress in our understanding of the pathophysiolo- gy of L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, due to a defect in L-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydrogenase, Citation: Rzem R, Achouri Y, Marbaix E, Schakman O, Wiame E, Marie S, et al. (2015) A Mouse Model of by creating and studying a mouse model of this disease. L-2-hydroxyglutarate dehydroge- L-2-Hydroxyglutaric Aciduria, a Disorder of Metabolite nase-deficient mice (l2hgdh-/-) accumulated L-2-hydroxyglutarate in tissues, most particu- Repair. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0119540. doi:10.1371/ larly in brain and testis, where the concentration reached 3.5 μmol/g. Male mice showed journal.pone.0119540 a 30% higher excretion of L-2-hydroxyglutarate compared to female mice, supporting that Academic Editor: Hans-Joachim Lehmler, The this dicarboxylic acid is partially made in males by lactate dehydrogenase C, a poorly specif- University of Iowa, UNITED STATES ic form of this enzyme exclusively expressed in testes.