An MRPS12 Mutation Modifies Aminoglycoside
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE published: 14 January 2015 doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00469 An MRPS12 mutation modifies aminoglycoside sensitivity caused by 12S rRNA mutations Sonia Emperador 1,2,3, David Pacheu-Grau 1, M. Pilar Bayona-Bafaluy 1, Nuria Garrido-Pérez 1, Antonio Martín-Navarro 1, Manuel J. López-Pérez 1,2,3, Julio Montoya 1,2,3 and Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini 1,2,3,4* 1 Departamento de Bioquímica, Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 2 Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 3 Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain 4 Fundación ARAID, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain Edited by: Several homoplasmic pathologic mutations in mitochondrial DNA, such as those causing Daniele Ghezzi, Foundation IRCCS Leber hereditary optic neuropathy or non-syndromic hearing loss, show incomplete Institute of Neurology C. Besta, Italy penetrance. Therefore, other elements must modify their pathogenicity. Discovery Reviewed by: of these modifying factors is not an easy task because in multifactorial diseases Niranjanan Nirmalananthan, St. George’s, University of London, UK conventional genetic approaches may not always be informative. Here, we have taken an René Massimiliano Marsano, evolutionary approach to unmask putative modifying factors for a particular homoplasmic University of Bari, Italy pathologic mutation causing aminoglycoside-induced and non-syndromic hearing loss, the *Correspondence: m.1494C>T transition in the mitochondrial DNA. The mutation is located in the decoding Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini, Departamento site of the mitochondrial ribosomal RNA. We first looked at mammalian species that de Bioquímica, Biología Molecular y Celular, Universidad de Zaragoza. had fixed the human pathologic mutation. These mutations are called compensated C/Miguel Servet 177, pathogenic deviations because an organism carrying one must also have another that 50013-Zaragoza, Spain suppresses the deleterious effect of the first. We found that species from the primate e-mail: [email protected] family Cercopithecidae (old world monkeys) harbor the m.1494T allele even if their auditory function is normal. In humans the m.1494T allele increases the susceptibility to aminoglycosides. However, in primary fibroblasts from a Cercopithecidae species, aminoglycosides do not impair cell growth, respiratory complex IV activity and quantity or the mitochondrial protein synthesis. Interestingly, this species also carries a fixed mutation in the mitochondrial ribosomal protein S12. We show that the expression of this variant in a human m.1494T cell line reduces its susceptibility to aminoglycosides. Because several mutations in this human protein have been described, they may possibly explain the absence of pathologic phenotype in some pedigree members with the most frequent pathologic mutations in mitochondrial ribosomal RNA. Keywords: mitochondrial ribosomal RNA, pathologic mutation, incomplete penetrance, aminoglycoside, compensatory mutation, mitochondrial ribosomal protein S12, evolutionary approaches INTRODUCTION moderate functional effect is their tissue-specificity. For exam- Human cells contain many mitochondria and each mitochon- ple, despite being present in every mtDNA molecule of each drion several mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) molecules. The cell, LHON and NSHL mutations mainly affect retinal gan- absence of mtDNA genetic variation in a person is named homo- glion and cochlear cells, respectively. This fact suggests that plasmy. However, homoplasmic mutations can be found in a tissue-specific factors, including the specific set of expressed particular individual when his/her mtDNA is different from a proteins, are required for the manifestation of the pathologic reference sequence, the revised Cambridge Reference Sequence phenotype (Hamalainen et al., 2013). It is also frequently (rCRS). If these mutations do not have phenotypic effect, they found that maternal relatives of patients carrying homoplas- can survive in the populations for long periods of time. On mic mutations are asymptomatic. This fact, again, suggests that the contrary, if mutations have very dramatic functional effects, other environmental and genetic factors are necessary for the they will be very quickly removed from the populations. In phenotypic expression (Fischel-Ghodsian, 2000; Carelli et al., between, there are several pathologic mtDNA mutations with 2003). moderate phenotypic effects. These are the etiologic factors for The m.1494C>T mutation in the 12S rRNA gene (MT-RNR1) some of the most frequent mtDNA diseases, such as the Leber was found in several NSHL patients from a Chinese family. The hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and the non-syndromic oxygen consumption was lower in lymphoblastoid cell lines from hearing loss (NSHL) (Fischel-Ghodsian, 2000; Carelli et al., homoplasmic mutant individuals (Zhao et al., 2004). Moreover, 2003). A common feature for these homoplasmic mutations with oxygen consumption and mtDNA-encoded protein synthesis was www.frontiersin.org January 2015 | Volume 5 | Article 469 | 1 Emperador et al. Compensation of mtDNA pathologic mutations also lower in mutant transmitochondrial osteosarcoma 143B cell Human non-synonymous SNPs in MRPS12 were found in dbSNP lines (cybrids) (Zhao et al., 2005). Therefore, the biochemi- Home Page (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/). cal phenotype was transferred with the mtDNA. As 12S rRNA is required for the synthesis of mtDNA-encoded proteins and CELL CULTURE CONDITIONS all these polypeptides are part of the oxidative phosphorylation Primary fibroblasts from macaque skin explant were expanded in (OXPHOS) system, the main oxygen consumer of the cell, these high-glucose (25 mM) DMEM (Gibco-Life Technologies) supple- > mented with glutamine, pyruvate and fetal bovine serum 20% results confirmed the pathogenicity of the m.1494C Tmuta- ◦ tion. Since then, homoplasmic m.1494C>T mutation has been (Gibco-Life Technologies) at 37 Cina5%CO2atmosphere. reported in 14 isolated NSHL patients and 22 Chinese and 3 For all cellular and biochemical studies, macaque cells were Spanish NSHL pedigrees with different genetic background with grown 72 h in the same medium but lacking glucose and sup- respect to mtDNA (Rodriguez-Ballesteros et al., 2006; Wang et al., plemented with galactose 5 mM. Human osteosarcoma 143B 2006; Chen et al., 2007, 2011; Han et al., 2007; Yuan et al., 2007; cybrids were grown in high-glucose DMEM medium (Gibco-Life Zhu et al., 2009; Wei et al., 2013a,b; Yang et al., 2013; Zhang Technologies) supplemented with glutamine, pyruvate and fetal et al., 2013). A total of 533 maternal relatives of these 26 fami- bovine serum 5% (Gibco- Life Technologies). When required, lies were studied, but 398 did not suffer from NSHL. Moreover, paromomycin (Sigma-Aldrich) 2 or 4 mg/ml was added to the cell this mutation was also found in a normal Chinese individual in a culture. population study to reconstruct the East Asian mtDNA phylogeny KIRBY-BAUER DISK SUSCEPTIBILITY TEST (Kong et al., 2003). Analyses of bacterial susceptibility to paromomycin were per- The discovery of modifying factors that alter the penetrance of formed following the Kirby-Bauer procedure updated by the mutations is not an easy task. Conventional genetic approaches Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (Clinical Laboratory such as linkage analysis might not be informative when there Standards Institute, 2006). Cell cultures of the test organism are many factors contributing to the disease (Carelli et al., 2003; (Escherichia coli TG1) were grown to mid-log phase. Mueller- Hudson et al., 2007; Kirkman et al., 2009; Giordano et al., Hinton agar plates were inoculated with 200 µlofbacterialsus- 2011). We have recently found that m.1555G in the MT-RNR1 pension containing 3 × 108 CFU/ml. Mitochondrial preparations gene, which also provokes NSHL in humans (Prezant et al., from immortalized macaque cells were obtained as described 1993), is the wild-type allele in orangutans and some other (Fernandez-Vizarra et al., 2010). Whatman paper discs (6 mm mammalian species (Pacheu-Grau et al., 2011). These mutations diameter) impregnated with 20 µlofwholecellextractsor that have been fixed in other species are called compensated mitochondria-enriched fractions (20 µgprotein/µlinPBS)were pathogenic deviations (CPD) because, at this site, a nucleotide placed on the agar surface. Inoculated plates were incubated for or amino acid substitution would be pathogenic to humans and, ◦ 14-16 h at 37 C. Sensitivity to the antibiotic was demonstrated by therefore, an organism carrying a CPD must also have some detecting a zone of growth inhibition. other compensatory deviation with respect to humans that sup- presses the deleterious effect of the CPD (Kondrashov et al., HUMAN MRPS12 CONSTRUCTS AND LENTIVIRAL TRANSDUCTION 2002). cDNA was obtained by using the reverse transcription In order to find modifying factors affecting the penetrance system Transcriptor First Strand cDNA Synthesis Kit > of the m.1494C T transition, we looked for mammalian species (Roche), using total RNA extracted from cultured m.1555A with the m.1494T allele and analyzed the mitochondrial transla- cybrids with TRIzol reagent (Invitrogen). MRPS12 cod- tion system and OXPHOS function. ing sequence including the 5 UTR sequence (Ensembl Transcript ID: ENST00000407800) was PCR amplified MATERIALS AND METHODS with Fw: GTTTAAACGCCACCATGTCCTGGTCTGGCC BIOINFORMATICS STUDIES and