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Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2005, p. 3286-3294, Vol. 25, No. 8
0270-7306/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.8.3286-3294.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

The SR Protein SC35 Is Responsible for Aberrant Splicing of the E1{alpha} Pyruvate Dehydrogenase mRNA in a Case of Mental Retardation with Lactic Acidosis

Mathieu Gabut,1,{dagger} Manuèle Miné,2,{dagger} Cécile Marsac,2 Michèle Brivet,3 Jamal Tazi,1* and Johann Soret1

Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier-UMR5535-IFR122, CNRS, Montpellier,1 Centre de Recherches Thérapeutiques en Ophtalmologie, Faculté de Médecine Necker, Paris,2 Biochimie 1, Hôpital de Bicêtre, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France3

Received 6 December 2004/ Returned for modification 4 January 2005/ Accepted 14 January 2005

Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex deficiency is a major cause of lactic acidosis and Leigh's encephalomyelopathies in infancy and childhood, resulting in early death in the majority of patients. Most of the molecular defects have been localized in the coding regions of the E1{alpha} PDH gene. Recently, we identified a novel mutation of the E1{alpha} PDH gene in a patient with an encephalopathy and lactic acidosis. This mutation, located downstream of exon 7, activates a cryptic splice donor and leads to the retention of intronic sequences. Here, we demonstrate that the mutation results in an increased binding of the SR protein SC35. Consistently, ectopic overexpression of this splicing factor enhanced the use of the cryptic splice site, whereas small interfering RNA-mediated reduction of the SC35 protein levels in primary fibroblasts from the patient resulted in the almost complete disappearance of the aberrantly spliced E1{alpha} PDH mRNA. Our findings open the exciting prospect for a novel therapy of an inherited disease by altering the level of a specific splicing factor.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: UMR 5535, IFR122, CNRS-UMII, Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier, 1919 route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France. Phone: 33 (0) 467613685. Fax: 33 (0) 467040231. E-mail: tazi{at}igmm.cnrs.fr.

{dagger} M.G. and M.M. contributed equally to this work.

Molecular and Cellular Biology, April 2005, p. 3286-3294, Vol. 25, No. 8
0022-538X/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MCB.25.8.3286-3294.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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