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Cristina Ugalde

Researcher at Carlos III Health Institute

Publications -  58
Citations -  3209

Cristina Ugalde is an academic researcher from Carlos III Health Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mitochondrion & Respiratory chain. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 52 publications receiving 2822 citations. Previous affiliations of Cristina Ugalde include Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre & Radboud University Nijmegen.

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Differences in assembly or stability of complex I and other mitochondrial OXPHOS complexes in inherited complex I deficiency

TL;DR: Blue native electrophoresis is used in order to study how different nuclear mutations affect the integrity of mitochondrial OXPHOS complexes in fibroblasts from 15 complex I-deficient patients to point more selectively to candidate genes for pathogenic mutations that could lead to an isolated complex I defect.
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Mitochondrial complex I plays an essential role in human respirasome assembly.

TL;DR: It is shown that in human cells, respirasome biogenesis involves a complex I assembly intermediate acting as a scaffold for the combined incorporation of complexes III and IV subunits, rather than originating from the association of preassembled individual holoenzymes.
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Human mitochondrial complex I assembles through the combination of evolutionary conserved modules: a framework to interpret complex I deficiencies

TL;DR: The results suggest that human complex I assembly resembles that of Neurospora crassa, in which a membrane arm is formed and assembled to a preformed peripheral arm, and support ideas about modular evolution.
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Mutant mitochondrial elongation factor G1 and combined oxidative phosphorylation deficiency

TL;DR: Two siblings with a severe defect in mitochondrial translation, reduced levels of oxidative phosphorylation complexes containing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-encoded subunits, and progressive hepatoencephalopathy are investigated, defining a new class of gene defects underlying disorders of oxidativeosphorylation.
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Mitochondrial DNA background modulates the assembly kinetics of OXPHOS complexes in a cellular model of mitochondrial disease.

TL;DR: The results showed differentially delayed assembly rates of respiratory chain complexes I, III and IV amongst mutants belonging to different mtDNA haplogroups, revealing that specific mtDNA polymorphisms may modify the pathogenic potential of LHON mutations by affecting the overall assembly kinetics of OXPHOS complexes.