Comment on

• Mutation of OPA1 causes dominant optic atrophy with external ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, deafness and multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions: a novel disorder of mtDNA maintenance.

  Hudson G, Amati-Bonneau P, Blakely EL, Stewart JD, He L, Schaefer AM, Griffiths PG, Ahlqvist K, Suomalainen A, Reynier P, McFarland R, Turnbull DM, Chinnery PF, Taylor RW. Hudson G, et al. Brain. 2008 Feb;131(Pt 2):329-37. doi: 10.1093/brain/awm272. Epub 2007 Dec 7. Brain. 2008. PMID: 18065439
• OPA1 mutations induce mitochondrial DNA instability and optic atrophy 'plus' phenotypes.

  Amati-Bonneau P, Valentino ML, Reynier P, Gallardo ME, Bornstein B, Boissière A, Campos Y, Rivera H, de la Aleja JG, Carroccia R, Iommarini L, Labauge P, Figarella-Branger D, Marcorelles P, Furby A, Beauvais K, Letournel F, Liguori R, La Morgia C, Montagna P, Liguori M, Zanna C, Rugolo M, Cossarizza A, Wissinger B, Verny C, Schwarzenbacher R, Martín MA, Arenas J, Ayuso C, Garesse R, Lenaers G, Bonneau D, Carelli V. Amati-Bonneau P, et al. Brain. 2008 Feb;131(Pt 2):338-51. doi: 10.1093/brain/awm298. Epub 2007 Dec 24. Brain. 2008. PMID: 18158317
• OPA1 mutations associated with dominant optic atrophy impair oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial fusion.

  Zanna C, Ghelli A, Porcelli AM, Karbowski M, Youle RJ, Schimpf S, Wissinger B, Pinti M, Cossarizza A, Vidoni S, Valentino ML, Rugolo M, Carelli V. Zanna C, et al. Brain. 2008 Feb;131(Pt 2):352-67. doi: 10.1093/brain/awm335. Brain. 2008. PMID: 18222991