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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Muscle degeneration is the most prevalent cause for frailty and dependency
    in inherited diseases and ageing. Elucidation of pathophysiological mechanisms,
    as well as effective treatments for muscle diseases, represents an important goal
    in improving human health. Here, we show that the lipid synthesis enzyme phosphatidylethanolamine
    cytidyltransferase (PCYT2/ECT) is critical to muscle health. Human deficiency
    in PCYT2 causes a severe disease with failure to thrive and progressive weakness.
    pcyt2-mutant zebrafish and muscle-specific Pcyt2-knockout mice recapitulate the
    participant phenotypes, with failure to thrive, progressive muscle weakness and
    accelerated ageing. Mechanistically, muscle Pcyt2 deficiency affects cellular
    bioenergetics and membrane lipid bilayer structure and stability. PCYT2 activity
    declines in ageing muscles of mice and humans, and adeno-associated virus-based
    delivery of PCYT2 ameliorates muscle weakness in Pcyt2-knockout and old mice,
    offering a therapy for individuals with a rare disease and muscle ageing. Thus,
    PCYT2 plays a fundamental and conserved role in vertebrate muscle health, linking
    PCYT2 and PCYT2-synthesized lipids to severe muscle dystrophy and ageing.
acknowledgement: 'The authors thank the participants and their families for participating
  in the study. We thank all members of our laboratories for helpful discussions.
  We are grateful to Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities: Mouse Phenotyping Unit, Histopathology
  Unit, Bioinformatics Unit, BioOptics Unit, Electron Microscopy Unit and Comparative
  Medicine Unit. We are grateful to the Lipidomics Facility, and K. Klavins and T.
  Hannich at the CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy
  of Sciences for assistance with lipidomics analysis. We also thank T. Huan and A.
  Hui (UBC Vancouver) for mouse tissue and mitochondria lipidomics analysis. We thank
  A. Klymchenko (Laboratoire de Bioimagerie et Pathologies Université de Strasbourg,
  Strasbourg, France) for providing the NR12S probe. We are thankful to the Sen. Paul
  D. Wellstone Muscular Dystrophy Cooperative Specialized Research Center Viral Vector
  Core Facility for AAV6 production. We also thank K. P. Campbell and M. E. Anderson
  (University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine) for advice on muscle tissue handling.
  We thank A. Al-Qassabi from the Sultan Qaboos University for the clinical assessment
  of the participants. D.C. and J.M.P. are supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry
  of Education, Science and Research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the City
  of Vienna, and grants from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) Wittgenstein award (Z
  271-B19), the T. von Zastrow Foundation, and a Canada 150 Research Chairs Program
  (F18-01336). J.S.C. is supported by grants RO1AR44533 and P50AR065139 from the US
  National Institutes of Health. C.K. is supported by a grant from the Agence Nationale
  de la Recherche (ANR-18-CE14-0007-01). A.V.K. is supported by European Union’s Horizon
  2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement
  no. 67544, and an Austrian Science Fund (FWF; no P-33799). A.W. is supported by
  Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) project no 867674. E.S. is supported by
  a SciLifeLab fellowship and Karolinska Institutet Foundation Grants. Work in the
  laboratory of G.S.-F. is supported by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the European
  Research Council (ERC AdG 695214 GameofGates) and the Innovative Medicines Initiative
  2 Joint Undertaking (grant agreement no. 777372, ReSOLUTE). S.B., M.L. and R.Y.
  acknowledge the support of the Spastic Paraplegia Foundation.'
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- first_name: Domagoj
  full_name: Cikes, Domagoj
  last_name: Cikes
- first_name: Kareem
  full_name: Elsayad, Kareem
  last_name: Elsayad
- first_name: Erdinc
  full_name: Sezgin, Erdinc
  last_name: Sezgin
- first_name: Erika
  full_name: Koitai, Erika
  last_name: Koitai
- first_name: Torma
  full_name: Ferenc, Torma
  last_name: Ferenc
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Orthofer, Michael
  last_name: Orthofer
- first_name: Rebecca
  full_name: Yarwood, Rebecca
  last_name: Yarwood
- first_name: Leonhard X.
  full_name: Heinz, Leonhard X.
  last_name: Heinz
- first_name: Vitaly
  full_name: Sedlyarov, Vitaly
  last_name: Sedlyarov
- first_name: Nasser
  full_name: Darwish-Miranda, Nasser
  id: 39CD9926-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Darwish-Miranda
  orcid: 0000-0002-8821-8236
- first_name: Adrian
  full_name: Taylor, Adrian
  last_name: Taylor
- first_name: Sophie
  full_name: Grapentine, Sophie
  last_name: Grapentine
- first_name: Fathiya
  full_name: al-Murshedi, Fathiya
  last_name: al-Murshedi
- first_name: Anne
  full_name: Abot, Anne
  last_name: Abot
- first_name: Adelheid
  full_name: Weidinger, Adelheid
  last_name: Weidinger
- first_name: Candice
  full_name: Kutchukian, Candice
  last_name: Kutchukian
- first_name: Colline
  full_name: Sanchez, Colline
  last_name: Sanchez
- first_name: Shane J. F.
  full_name: Cronin, Shane J. F.
  last_name: Cronin
- first_name: Maria
  full_name: Novatchkova, Maria
  last_name: Novatchkova
- first_name: Anoop
  full_name: Kavirayani, Anoop
  last_name: Kavirayani
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Schuetz, Thomas
  last_name: Schuetz
- first_name: Bernhard
  full_name: Haubner, Bernhard
  last_name: Haubner
- first_name: Lisa
  full_name: Haas, Lisa
  last_name: Haas
- first_name: Astrid
  full_name: Hagelkruys, Astrid
  last_name: Hagelkruys
- first_name: Suzanne
  full_name: Jackowski, Suzanne
  last_name: Jackowski
- first_name: Andrey
  full_name: Kozlov, Andrey
  last_name: Kozlov
- first_name: Vincent
  full_name: Jacquemond, Vincent
  last_name: Jacquemond
- first_name: Claude
  full_name: Knauf, Claude
  last_name: Knauf
- first_name: Giulio
  full_name: Superti-Furga, Giulio
  last_name: Superti-Furga
- first_name: Eric
  full_name: Rullman, Eric
  last_name: Rullman
- first_name: Thomas
  full_name: Gustafsson, Thomas
  last_name: Gustafsson
- first_name: John
  full_name: McDermot, John
  last_name: McDermot
- first_name: Martin
  full_name: Lowe, Martin
  last_name: Lowe
- first_name: Zsolt
  full_name: Radak, Zsolt
  last_name: Radak
- first_name: Jeffrey S.
  full_name: Chamberlain, Jeffrey S.
  last_name: Chamberlain
- first_name: Marica
  full_name: Bakovic, Marica
  last_name: Bakovic
- first_name: Siddharth
  full_name: Banka, Siddharth
  last_name: Banka
- first_name: Josef M.
  full_name: Penninger, Josef M.
  last_name: Penninger
citation:
  ama: Cikes D, Elsayad K, Sezgin E, et al. PCYT2-regulated lipid biosynthesis is
    critical to muscle health and ageing. <i>Nature Metabolism</i>. 2023;5:495-515.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2">10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2</a>
  apa: Cikes, D., Elsayad, K., Sezgin, E., Koitai, E., Ferenc, T., Orthofer, M., …
    Penninger, J. M. (2023). PCYT2-regulated lipid biosynthesis is critical to muscle
    health and ageing. <i>Nature Metabolism</i>. Springer Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2">https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2</a>
  chicago: Cikes, Domagoj, Kareem Elsayad, Erdinc Sezgin, Erika Koitai, Torma Ferenc,
    Michael Orthofer, Rebecca Yarwood, et al. “PCYT2-Regulated Lipid Biosynthesis
    Is Critical to Muscle Health and Ageing.” <i>Nature Metabolism</i>. Springer Nature,
    2023. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2">https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2</a>.
  ieee: D. Cikes <i>et al.</i>, “PCYT2-regulated lipid biosynthesis is critical to
    muscle health and ageing,” <i>Nature Metabolism</i>, vol. 5. Springer Nature,
    pp. 495–515, 2023.
  ista: Cikes D, Elsayad K, Sezgin E, Koitai E, Ferenc T, Orthofer M, Yarwood R, Heinz
    LX, Sedlyarov V, Darwish-Miranda N, Taylor A, Grapentine S, al-Murshedi F, Abot
    A, Weidinger A, Kutchukian C, Sanchez C, Cronin SJF, Novatchkova M, Kavirayani
    A, Schuetz T, Haubner B, Haas L, Hagelkruys A, Jackowski S, Kozlov A, Jacquemond
    V, Knauf C, Superti-Furga G, Rullman E, Gustafsson T, McDermot J, Lowe M, Radak
    Z, Chamberlain JS, Bakovic M, Banka S, Penninger JM. 2023. PCYT2-regulated lipid
    biosynthesis is critical to muscle health and ageing. Nature Metabolism. 5, 495–515.
  mla: Cikes, Domagoj, et al. “PCYT2-Regulated Lipid Biosynthesis Is Critical to Muscle
    Health and Ageing.” <i>Nature Metabolism</i>, vol. 5, Springer Nature, 2023, pp.
    495–515, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2">10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2</a>.
  short: D. Cikes, K. Elsayad, E. Sezgin, E. Koitai, T. Ferenc, M. Orthofer, R. Yarwood,
    L.X. Heinz, V. Sedlyarov, N. Darwish-Miranda, A. Taylor, S. Grapentine, F. al-Murshedi,
    A. Abot, A. Weidinger, C. Kutchukian, C. Sanchez, S.J.F. Cronin, M. Novatchkova,
    A. Kavirayani, T. Schuetz, B. Haubner, L. Haas, A. Hagelkruys, S. Jackowski, A.
    Kozlov, V. Jacquemond, C. Knauf, G. Superti-Furga, E. Rullman, T. Gustafsson,
    J. McDermot, M. Lowe, Z. Radak, J.S. Chamberlain, M. Bakovic, S. Banka, J.M. Penninger,
    Nature Metabolism 5 (2023) 495–515.
date_created: 2023-03-23T12:58:43Z
date_published: 2023-03-20T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2023-11-28T07:31:33Z
day: '20'
department:
- _id: Bio
doi: 10.1038/s42255-023-00766-2
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  - 2522-5812
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_id: '7711'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: The nature and extent of mitochondrial DNA variation in a population and how
    it affects traits is poorly understood. Here we resequence the mitochondrial genomes
    of 169 Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel lines, identifying 231 variants that
    stratify along 12 mitochondrial haplotypes. We identify 1,845 cases of mitonuclear
    allelic imbalances, thus implying that mitochondrial haplotypes are reflected
    in the nuclear genome. However, no major fitness effects are associated with mitonuclear
    imbalance, suggesting that such imbalances reflect population structure at the
    mitochondrial level rather than genomic incompatibilities. Although mitochondrial
    haplotypes have no direct impact on mitochondrial respiration, some haplotypes
    are associated with stress- and metabolism-related phenotypes, including food
    intake in males. Finally, through reciprocal swapping of mitochondrial genomes,
    we demonstrate that a mitochondrial haplotype associated with high food intake
    can rescue a low food intake phenotype. Together, our findings provide new insight
    into population structure at the mitochondrial level and point to the importance
    of incorporating mitochondrial haplotypes in genotype–phenotype relationship studies.
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Roel P. J.
  full_name: Bevers, Roel P. J.
  last_name: Bevers
- first_name: Maria
  full_name: Litovchenko, Maria
  last_name: Litovchenko
- first_name: Adamandia
  full_name: Kapopoulou, Adamandia
  last_name: Kapopoulou
- first_name: Virginie S.
  full_name: Braman, Virginie S.
  last_name: Braman
- first_name: Matthew Richard
  full_name: Robinson, Matthew Richard
  id: E5D42276-F5DA-11E9-8E24-6303E6697425
  last_name: Robinson
  orcid: 0000-0001-8982-8813
- first_name: Johan
  full_name: Auwerx, Johan
  last_name: Auwerx
- first_name: Brian
  full_name: Hollis, Brian
  last_name: Hollis
- first_name: Bart
  full_name: Deplancke, Bart
  last_name: Deplancke
citation:
  ama: Bevers RPJ, Litovchenko M, Kapopoulou A, et al. Mitochondrial haplotypes affect
    metabolic phenotypes in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel. <i>Nature Metabolism</i>.
    2019;1(12):1226-1242. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3">10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3</a>
  apa: Bevers, R. P. J., Litovchenko, M., Kapopoulou, A., Braman, V. S., Robinson,
    M. R., Auwerx, J., … Deplancke, B. (2019). Mitochondrial haplotypes affect metabolic
    phenotypes in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel. <i>Nature Metabolism</i>.
    Springer Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3</a>
  chicago: Bevers, Roel P. J., Maria Litovchenko, Adamandia Kapopoulou, Virginie S.
    Braman, Matthew Richard Robinson, Johan Auwerx, Brian Hollis, and Bart Deplancke.
    “Mitochondrial Haplotypes Affect Metabolic Phenotypes in the Drosophila Genetic
    Reference Panel.” <i>Nature Metabolism</i>. Springer Nature, 2019. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3</a>.
  ieee: R. P. J. Bevers <i>et al.</i>, “Mitochondrial haplotypes affect metabolic
    phenotypes in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel,” <i>Nature Metabolism</i>,
    vol. 1, no. 12. Springer Nature, pp. 1226–1242, 2019.
  ista: Bevers RPJ, Litovchenko M, Kapopoulou A, Braman VS, Robinson MR, Auwerx J,
    Hollis B, Deplancke B. 2019. Mitochondrial haplotypes affect metabolic phenotypes
    in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel. Nature Metabolism. 1(12), 1226–1242.
  mla: Bevers, Roel P. J., et al. “Mitochondrial Haplotypes Affect Metabolic Phenotypes
    in the Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel.” <i>Nature Metabolism</i>, vol. 1,
    no. 12, Springer Nature, 2019, pp. 1226–42, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3">10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3</a>.
  short: R.P.J. Bevers, M. Litovchenko, A. Kapopoulou, V.S. Braman, M.R. Robinson,
    J. Auwerx, B. Hollis, B. Deplancke, Nature Metabolism 1 (2019) 1226–1242.
date_created: 2020-04-30T10:40:56Z
date_published: 2019-12-09T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T08:15:01Z
day: '09'
doi: 10.1038/s42255-019-0147-3
extern: '1'
intvolume: '         1'
issue: '12'
language:
- iso: eng
month: '12'
oa_version: None
page: 1226-1242
publication: Nature Metabolism
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2522-5812
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Nature
quality_controlled: '1'
related_material:
  link:
  - relation: erratum
    url: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-020-0202-0
status: public
title: Mitochondrial haplotypes affect metabolic phenotypes in the Drosophila Genetic
  Reference Panel
type: journal_article
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