A systematic review on the biochemical threshold of mitochondrial genetic variants

Table 5.

Complex IV variants

Disease/clinical features Variant Subunit AA change Agea % VAF Complex IV Reference
Muscle Blood Fibroblasts Other Residual activity, % Protein levels
Epilepsia partialis continua 6489C > A MT-CO1 Leu196Ileu 17 yr 95 30 74, muscle (Varlamov et al. 2002)
Rhabdomyolysis, myopathy 6708G > A MT-CO1 Gly269X 30 yr 81–89 <1 21, muscleb (Kollberg et al. 2005)
Multisystem mitochondrial disease 6930G > A MT-CO1 Gly343X 21 yr 75 27 35, 65, cybrids
33, myoblasts
10, muscle
50, cybrids with vaf of 35%
25, cybrids with vaf of 65%
(Bruno et al. 1999)
EXIT with mild intellectual disability 6955G > A MT-CO1 Gly351Asp 13 yr 100 15, muscle (Herrero-Martin et al. 2008)
McArdle's syndrome 7444G > A MT-CO1 X514Lys 57 yr 100 35, muscle (Aguilera Garcia-Lozano et al. 2001)
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy 7587T > C MT-CO2 Met1Thr 57 yr 67 <1 52 38, muscle (Clark et al. 1999)
Proximal myopathy and lactic acidosis 7671T > A MT-CO2 Met29Lys 14 yr 90 5 6, muscle (Rahman et al. 1999)
Multisystem mitochondrial disease 7896G > A MT-CO2 Trp104X 3 yr 76 67 60 13, muscle (Campos et al. 2001)
Multisystem mitochondrial disease 7970G > T MT-CO2 E129X 35 yr 90 3, muscle (Horváth et al. 2005)
Myopathy, EXIT, lactic acidosis, lipidosis, ragged red fibers 9379G > A MT-CO3 W58X 14 yr 93 <1, hair 1, muscle (Horvath et al. 2002)
MELAS 9396G > A MT-CO3 Glu64Lys 11 yr 94 39 91 100, urinary sediment
74, saliva
77, fingernails
95, cybrids
78, muscle
78, cybrids
(Xu et al. 2021)
MELAS 9553G > A MT-CO3 Trp116X 47 yr 89 13, oral epithelium 59, muscle (Wang et al. 2021)
Rhabdomyolysis 9559delC MT-CO3 Frameshift 27 yr 58 38, musclec (Marotta et al. 2011)
EXIT, rhabdomyolysis 9789T > C MT-CO3 Ser195Pro 23 yr 50 <1 <1, myoblasts 10, muscle (Horváth et al. 2005)
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy 9952G > A MT-CO3 Trp248X 36 yr 57 17, muscle (Hanna et al. 1998)
MELAS 9957T > C MT-CO3 Phe251Leu 7 yr 81 60 79, muscle Similar levels as referent (Manfredi et al. 1995)
  • aAge of the patient at which the VAF and complex I activity were measured.

  • bNormalized to protein.

  • cNormalized to complex II activity.

  • (AA) Amino acid; (VAF) variant allele frequency; (COX) cytochrome c oxidase; (EXIT) exercise intolerance; and (MELAS) mitochondrial encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes.

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