Mitochondrial gene therapy: an arena for the biomedical use of inteins

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de Grey, ADNJ [1 ]
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[1] Univ Cambridge, Dept Genet, Cambridge CB2 3EH, England
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10.1016/S0167-7799(00)01476-1
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Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations underlie many rare diseases and might also contribute to human ageing. Gene therapy is a tempting future possibility for intervening in mitochondriopathies, Expression of the 13 mtDNA-encoded proteins from nuclear transgenes (allotopic expression) might be the most effective gene-therapy strategy. Its only confirmed difficulty is the extreme hydrophobicity of these proteins, which prevents their import into mitochondria from the cytosol. Inteins (self-splicing 'protein introns') might offer a solution to this problem: their insertion into such transgenes could greatly reduce the encoded proteins' hydrophobicity, enabling import, with post-import excision restoring the natural amino acid sequence.
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