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Jiménez Legido M, Cortés Ledesma C, Bernardino Cuesta B, López Marín L, Cantarín Extremera V, Pérez-Cerdá C, Pérez González B, López Martín E, González Gutiérrez-Solana L. Study of paediatric patients with the clinical and biochemical phenotype of glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome. Neurologia 2022; 37:91-100. [PMID: 31047728 DOI: 10.1016/j.nrl.2018.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Revised: 10/16/2018] [Accepted: 10/30/2018] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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INTRODUCTION Glucose transporter type 1 (GLUT1) deficiency syndrome may present a range of phenotypes, including epilepsy, intellectual disability, and movement disorders. The majority of patients present low CSF glucose levels and/or defects in the SLC2A1 gene; however, some patients do not present low CSF glucose or SLC2A1 mutations, and may have other mutations in other genes with compatible phenotypes. AIMS We describe the clinical, biochemical, and genetic characteristics of the disease and perform a univariate analysis of a group of patients with clinical and biochemical phenotype of GLUT1 deficiency syndrome, with or without SLC2A1 mutations. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study included 13 patients meeting clinical and biochemical criteria for GLUT1 deficiency syndrome. SLC2A1 sequencing and multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification were performed; exome sequencing was performed for patients with negative results. RESULTS Six patients presented the classic phenotype; 2 paroxysmal dyskinesia, 2 complex movement disorders, 2 early-onset absence seizures, and one presented drug-resistant childhood absence epilepsy. Six patients were positive for SLC2A1 mutations; in the other 5, another genetic defect was identified. No significant differences were observed between the 2 groups for age of onset, clinical presentation, microcephaly, intellectual disability, or response to ketogenic diet. Patients with SLC2A1 mutations presented more clinical changes in relation to diet (66.7% vs. 28.6% in the SLC2A1-negative group) and greater persistence of motor symptoms (66% vs. 28.6%); these differences were not statistically significant. Significant differences were observed for CSF glucose level (34.5 vs. 46mg/dL, P=.04) and CSF/serum glucose ratio (0.4 vs. 0.48, P<.05). CONCLUSIONS GLUT1 deficiency syndrome may be caused by mutations to genes other than SLC2A1 in patients with compatible phenotype, low CSF glucose level, and good response to the ketogenic diet.
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- M Jiménez Legido
- Sección de Neuropediatría, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, España.
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- Sección de Neuropediatría, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, España
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- Sección de Neuropediatría, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, España
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- Sección de Neuropediatría, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, España; Grupo Clínico Vinculado a CIBERER (GCV6)
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- Sección de Neuropediatría, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, España; Grupo Clínico Vinculado a CIBERER (GCV6)
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares (CEDEM), Madrid, España
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares (CEDEM), Madrid, España
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- Instituto de Investigación de Enfermedades Raras (IIER) & Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red para Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España
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- Sección de Neuropediatría, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, España; Grupo Clínico Vinculado a CIBERER (GCV6)
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Gámez A, Yuste-Checa P, Brasil S, Briso-Montiano Á, Desviat L, Ugarte M, Pérez-Cerdá C, Pérez B. Protein misfolding diseases: Prospects of pharmacological treatment. Clin Genet 2017; 93:450-458. [DOI: 10.1111/cge.13088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2017] [Revised: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 06/27/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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- A. Gámez
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER); Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria IdiPAZ; Madrid Spain
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Merinero B, Alcaide P, Martín-Hernández E, Morais A, García-Silva MT, Quijada-Fraile P, Pedrón-Giner C, Dulin E, Yahyaoui R, Egea JM, Belanger-Quintana A, Blasco-Alonso J, Fernandez Ruano ML, Besga B, Ferrer-López I, Leal F, Ugarte M, Ruiz-Sala P, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C. Four Years' Experience in the Diagnosis of Very Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency in Infants Detected in Three Spanish Newborn Screening Centers. JIMD Rep 2017; 39:63-74. [PMID: 28755359 DOI: 10.1007/8904_2017_40] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Revised: 06/08/2017] [Accepted: 06/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Identification of very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency is possible in the expanded newborn screening (NBS) due to the increase in tetradecenoylcarnitine (C14:1) and in the C14:1/C2, C14:1/C16, C14:1/C12:1 ratios detected in dried blood spots. Nevertheless, different confirmatory tests must be performed to confirm the final diagnosis. We have revised the NBS results and the results of the confirmatory tests (plasma acylcarnitine profiles, molecular findings, and lymphocytes VLCAD activity) for 36 cases detected in three Spanish NBS centers during 4 years, correlating these with the clinical outcome and treatment. Our aim was to distinguish unambiguously true cases from disease carriers in order to obtain useful diagnostic information for clinicians that can be applied in the follow-up of neonates identified by NBS.Increases in C14:1 and of the different ratios, the presence of two pathogenic mutations, and deficient enzyme activity in lymphocytes (<12% of the intra-assay control) identified 12 true-positive cases. These cases were given nutritional therapy and all of them are asymptomatic, except one. Seventeen individuals were considered disease carriers based on the mild increase in plasma C14:1, in conjunction with the presence of only one mutation and/or intermediate residual activity (18-57%). In addition, seven cases were classified as false positives, with normal biochemical parameters and no mutations in the exonic region of ACADVL. All these carriers and the false positive cases remained asymptomatic. The combined evaluation of the acylcarnitine profiles, genetic results, and residual enzyme activities have proven useful to definitively classify individuals with suspected VLCAD deficiency into true-positive cases and carriers, and to decide which cases need treatment.
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- B Merinero
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Pediatría, Unidad de Enfermedades Mitocondriales-Metabólicas Hereditarias, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad de Nutrición Infantil y Enfermedades Metabólicas, Hospital Universitario Infantil La Paz, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Pediatría, Unidad de Enfermedades Mitocondriales-Metabólicas Hereditarias, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Pediatría, Unidad de Enfermedades Mitocondriales-Metabólicas Hereditarias, Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, CIBERER, Madrid, Spain
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- Sección de Gastroenterología y Nutrición, Hospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Cribado Neonatal, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Metabolopatías, Hospital Regional de Málaga, Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de Málaga (IBIMA), Málaga, Spain
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- Centro de Bioquímica y Genética Clínica, Unidad de Metabolopatías, Hospital General Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain
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- Unidad de Enfermedades Metabólicas, Servicio de Pediatría, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
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- Sección de Gastroenterología y Nutrición Pediátrica, Hospital Regional de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Cribado Neonatal, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Cribado Neonatal, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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Peña-Quintana L, Scherer G, Curbelo-Estévez ML, Jiménez-Acosta F, Hartmann B, La Roche F, Meavilla-Olivas S, Pérez-Cerdá C, García-Segarra N, Giguère Y, Huppke P, Mitchell GA, Mönch E, Trump D, Vianey-Saban C, Trimble ER, Vitoria-Miñana I, Reyes-Suárez D, Ramírez-Lorenzo T, Tugores A. Tyrosinemia type II: Mutation update, 11 novel mutations and description of 5 independent subjects with a novel founder mutation. Clin Genet 2017; 92:306-317. [PMID: 28255985 DOI: 10.1111/cge.13003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2016] [Revised: 01/27/2017] [Accepted: 02/27/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tyrosinemia type II, also known as Richner-Hanhart Syndrome, is an extremely rare autosomal recessive disorder, caused by mutations in the gene encoding hepatic cytosolic tyrosine aminotransferase, leading to the accumulation of tyrosine and its metabolites which cause ocular and skin lesions, that may be accompanied by neurological manifestations, mostly intellectual disability. AIMS To update disease-causing mutations and current clinical knowledge of the disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Genetic and clinical information were obtained from a collection of both unreported and previously reported cases. RESULTS We report 106 families, represented by 143 individuals, carrying a total of 36 genetic variants, 11 of them not previously known to be associated with the disease. Variants include 3 large deletions, 21 non-synonymous and 5 nonsense amino-acid changes, 5 frameshifts and 2 splice variants. We also report 5 patients from Gran Canaria, representing the largest known group of unrelated families sharing the same P406L mutation. CONCLUSIONS Data analysis did not reveal a genotype-phenotype correlation, but stressed the need of early diagnosis: All patients improved the oculocutaneous lesions after dietary treatment but neurological symptoms prevailed. The discovery of founder mutations in isolated populations, and the benefits of early intervention, should increase diagnostic awareness in newborns.
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- L Peña-Quintana
- Department of Pediatrics, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.,CIBER OBN, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Pediatrics, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Mediteknia Dermatology and Hair Transplant Clinic, Medical Pathology Group, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Institute of Human Genetics, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Endocrinology and Nutrition, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Section of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Metabolopathies Unit Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, CIBERER, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain
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- Center for Molecular Diseases, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Programme québécois de dépistage néonatal sanguin, CHU de Québec, and Department of Molecular Biology, Medical Biochemistry and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Division of Pediatric Neurology, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
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- Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, CHU Sainte-Justine and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
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- Charité University Medical Center, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Medical Genetics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
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- Unidad de Nutrición y Metabolopatías, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Pediatrics, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Research Unit, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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- Research Unit, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular-Materno Infantil, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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Castro M, Carrillo R, García F, Sanz P, Ferrer I, Ruiz-Sala P, Vega AI, Ruíz Desviat L, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, Ugarte M. Thirteen years experience with selective screening for disorders in purine and pyrimidine metabolism. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 2015; 33:233-40. [PMID: 24940674 DOI: 10.1080/15257770.2013.854381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Purine and pyrimidine disorders represent a heterogeneous group with variable clinical symptoms and low prevalence rate. In the last thirteen years, we have studied urine/plasma specimens from about 1600 patients and we have identified 35 patients: eight patients with adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency, eight patients with hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase deficiency, one patient with purine nucleoside phosphorylase deficiency, ten patients with xanthine dehydrogenase deficiency, six patients with molybdenum cofactor deficiency and two patients with dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency. Despite low incidence of these diseases, our findings highlight the importance of including the purine and pyrimidine analysis in the selective screening for inborn errors of metabolism in specialized laboratories, where amino acid and organic acid disorders are simultaneously investigated.
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- M Castro
- a Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares (CEDEM), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER) , Madrid , Spain
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Yuste-Checa P, Medrano C, Gámez A, Desviat LR, Matthijs G, Ugarte M, Pérez-Cerdá C, Pérez B. Antisense-mediated therapeutic pseudoexon skipping in TMEM165-CDG. Clin Genet 2014; 87:42-8. [PMID: 24720419 DOI: 10.1111/cge.12402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2014] [Revised: 04/08/2014] [Accepted: 04/08/2014] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Deficiencies in glycosyltransferases, glycosidases or nucleotide-sugar transporters involved in protein glycosylation lead to congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG), a group of genetic diseases mostly showing multisystem phenotype. Despite recent advances in the biochemical and molecular knowledge of these diseases, no effective therapy exists for most. Efforts are now being directed toward therapies based on identifying new targets, which would allow to treat specific patients in a personalized way. This work presents proof-of concept for the antisense RNA rescue of the Golgi-resident protein TMEM165, a gene involved in a new type of CDG with a characteristic skeletal phenotype. Using a functional in vitro splicing assay based on minigenes, it was found that the deep intronic change c.792+182G>A is responsible for the insertion of an aberrant exon, corresponding to an intronic sequence. Antisense morpholino oligonucleotide therapy targeted toward TMEM165 mRNA recovered normal protein levels in the Golgi apparatus of patient-derived fibroblasts. This work expands the application of antisense oligonucleotide-mediated pseudoexon skipping to the treatment of a Golgi-resident protein, and opens up a promising treatment option for this specific TMEM165-CDG.
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- P Yuste-Checa
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular-SO UAM-CSIC, Campus de Cantoblanco, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), IDIPaz, Madrid, Spain; Instituto de Investigación Biomedica, IDIPaz, Madrid
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Vitoria I, Rausell D, González I, Pérez-Cerdá C, Dalmau J. [Delayed onset holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency with normal pyruvate carboxylase activity]. An Pediatr (Barc) 2013; 80:184-6. [PMID: 24099927 DOI: 10.1016/j.anpedi.2013.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2013] [Accepted: 05/30/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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We report a case of holocarboxylase synthetase deficiency with normal pyruvate carboxylase activity in the lymphocytes of an 8 year-old girl with clinical toxicity without the classic dermatological involvement. The identification of three nucleotide changes in the holocarboxylase synthetase (HLCS) gene, only one of them described as a pathogenic mutation could be related to a slight variant of the disease that would explain the unusual presentation beyond the age of infant. Treatment with biotin at 40 mg/day with protein controlled diet allows normal physical growth and psychomotor development for their age.
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- I Vitoria
- Unidad de Nutrición y Metabolopatías, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, España.
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- Laboratorio Metabolopatías, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, España
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- Unidad de Metabolopatías, Centro de Bioquímica y Genética, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, España
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- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Raras (CIBERER), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, España
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- Unidad de Nutrición y Metabolopatías, Hospital La Fe, Valencia, España
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Pérez-Carro R, Sánchez-Alcudia R, Pérez B, Navarrete R, Pérez-Cerdá C, Ugarte M, Desviat LR. Functional analysis and in vitro correction of splicing FAH mutations causing tyrosinemia type I. Clin Genet 2013; 86:167-71. [PMID: 23895425 DOI: 10.1111/cge.12243] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2013] [Revised: 07/08/2013] [Accepted: 07/23/2013] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Hereditary tyrosinemia type I (HT1) is a rare disease caused by a deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) in the tyrosine catabolic pathway, resulting mainly in hepatic alterations due to accumulation of the toxic metabolites fumarylacetoacetate, maleylacetoacetate and succinylacetone. We have characterized using minigenes four splicing mutations affecting exonic or intronic nucleotides of the FAH gene identified in two HT1 patients. Two of the mutations are novel, c.82-1G>A and c.913G>C and the other two have been previously associated with a splicing defect (c.836A>G and c.1062+5G>A). All mutations were confirmed to affect splicing in minigenes, resulting in exon skipping or activation of a cryptic splice site. We have analyzed the effect of different compounds known to modulate splicing (valproic acid, phenyl butyrate, M344, EIPA, and resveratrol) and the overexpression of splice factors of the SR protein family on the transcriptional profile of the mutant minigenes. For the c.836A>G mutation, a partial recovery of the correctly spliced transcript was observed. These results confirm the relevance of performing functional studies for mutations potentially affecting the splicing process and open the possibility of supplementary therapeutic approaches to diseases caused by splicing defects.
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- R Pérez-Carro
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma, CIBERER, IdiPaz, Madrid, Spain
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Pérez B, Briones P, Quelhas D, Artuch R, Vega AI, Quintana E, Gort L, Ecay MJ, Matthijs G, Ugarte M, Pérez-Cerdá C. The molecular landscape of phosphomannose mutase deficiency in iberian peninsula: identification of 15 population-specific mutations. JIMD Rep 2011; 1:117-23. [PMID: 23430838 DOI: 10.1007/8904_2011_26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2010] [Revised: 02/11/2011] [Accepted: 02/16/2011] [Indexed: 03/25/2023] Open
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PMM2-CDG is an autosomal recessive disorder and the most frequent form of congenital disorder of N-glycosylation, with more than 100 mutations identified to date. Sixty-six patients from 58 unrelated families were diagnosed as PMM2-CDG (CDG-Ia) based on clinical signs or because of a previous affected sibling. They all presented a type 1 serum transferrin isoform pattern, and, in most cases, the disease was confirmed by determining PMM2 activity in fibroblasts and/or lymphocytes. Residual PMM2 activity in fibroblasts ranged from not detectable to 60% of the mean controls. DNA and RNA were isolated from fresh blood or fibroblasts from patients to perform molecular studies of the PMM2 gene, resulting in the identification of 30 different mutations, four of them newly reported here (p.Y102C, p.T118S, p.P184T, and p.D209G). From these 30 mutations, 15 have only been identified among Iberian PMM2-CDG patients. As in other Caucasian populations, p.R141H was the most frequent mutation (24 alleles, prevalence 20.6%), but less than in other European series in which this mutation represents 35-43% of the disease alleles. The next frequent mutations were p.D65Y (12 alleles, prevalence 10.3%) and p.T237M (9 alleles, prevalence 7.6%), while p.F119L and p.E139K, the most frequent changes in Scandinavian and French populations, respectively, were not found in our patients. The most common genotype was [p.R141H] + [p.T237M], and four homozygous patients for p.Y64C, p.D65Y, p.P113L, and p.T237M were detected. The broad mutational spectrum and the diversity of phenotypes found in the Iberian populations hamper genotype-phenotype correlation.
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- B Pérez
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, CBM-SO, Facultad de Ciencias, Módulo 10, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Escalera GI, Ferrer I, Marina LC, Sala PR, Salomons GS, Jakobs C, Pérez-Cerdá C. [Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency: decrease in 4-OH-butyric acid levels with low doses of vigabatrin]. An Pediatr (Barc) 2009; 72:128-32. [PMID: 20018576 DOI: 10.1016/j.anpedi.2009.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2009] [Revised: 09/15/2009] [Accepted: 09/16/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022] Open
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Succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase deficiency (gamma-hydroxybutyric aciduria) is a rare neurometabolic disease caused by a deficiency in gamma-aminobutyric degradation, resulting in an increase in gamma-hydroxybutyric acid in biological fluids. The clinical spectrum is heterogeneous, including a variety of neurological manifestations and psychiatric symptoms. The treatment usually used is vigabatrin, but its clinical efficacy is under discussion. We present two affected siblings. The older brother was examined when he was 2.5 years old due to psychomotor and developmental delay, disturbances in motor coordination, axial hypotonia and language disability. His younger brother had mild axial hypotonia when 5 months old. Metabolic studies demonstrated a high plasma and urine concentration of gamma-hydroxybutyric acid. Mutation analysis of the gene ALDH5A1 confirmed the disease. After 1 year of treatment with low-doses of vigabatrin of the older patient, a decrease in gamma-hydroxybutyric acid plasma levels and a slow clinical improvement were observed.
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Pérez-Dueñas B, García-Cazorla A, Pineda M, Poo P, Campistol J, Cusí V, Schollen E, Matthijs G, Grunewald S, Briones P, Pérez-Cerdá C, Artuch R, Vilaseca MA. Long-term evolution of eight Spanish patients with CDG type Ia: typical and atypical manifestations. Eur J Paediatr Neurol 2009; 13:444-51. [PMID: 18948042 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejpn.2008.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2008] [Revised: 09/01/2008] [Accepted: 09/01/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Congenital disorder of glycosylation Ia (CDG-Ia) is a metabolic disease with a broad spectrum of clinical signs, including recently described mild phenotypes. Our aim was to describe the clinical presentation and follow-up of eight CDG-Ia patients highlighting atypical features and aspects of evolution of the disease. CDG diagnosis was confirmed by enzymatic analysis of phosphomannomutase (PMM2) and molecular studies of the PMM2 gene. Four neonates presented with cerebral haemorrhage (1), failure to thrive (2) and non-immune hydrops (1) and a fatal course to death (2); pathological examination of the brain in one case revealed olivopontocerebellar atrophy of prenatal origin. During infancy failure to thrive, coagulopathy and hepatopathy were the most significant causes of morbidity, but these disappeared after the first years of life in most patients. Three patients are currently in their 20s; they present mental retardation and severe motor impairment but no acute decompensations were noticed after the first decade of life. They do not present spinal or thoracic deformities otherwise observed in patients from northern countries. A 10-year-old patient who manifested gastrointestinal dysfunction in early childhood showed normal neurodevelopment. Mutation analysis of the PMM2 gene showed great variability, with all patients being compound heterozygous for two different mutations. Long-term evolution in our patients indicates that CDG-Ia is a stable systemic and neurological condition after the first decade of life. The diverse phenotypes and atypical manifestations in our series may be due to their genetic heterogeneity.
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- B Pérez-Dueñas
- Department of Neurology and Center for Biomedical Research on Rare Diseases (CIBERER), ISCIII, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain.
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Merinero B, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Rincón A, Desviat LR, Martínez MA, Sala PR, García MJ, Aldamiz-Echevarría L, Campos J, Cornejo V, Del Toro M, Mahfoud A, Martínez-Pardo M, Parini R, Pedrón C, Peña-Quintana L, Pérez M, Pourfarzam M, Ugarte M. Methylmalonic acidaemia: examination of genotype and biochemical data in 32 patients belonging to mut, cblA or cblB complementation group. J Inherit Metab Dis 2008; 31:55-66. [PMID: 17957493 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-007-0667-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2007] [Revised: 08/07/2007] [Accepted: 09/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Methylmalonic acidaemia (MMA) is a genetic disorder caused by defects in methylmalonyl-CoA mutase or in any of the different proteins involved in the synthesis of adenosylcobalamin. The aim of this work was to examine the biochemical and clinical phenotype of 32 MMA patients according to their genotype, and to study the mutant mRNA stability by real-time PCR analysis. Using cellular and biochemical methods, we classified our patient cohort as having the MMA forms mut (n = 19), cblA (n = 9) and cblB (n = 4). All the mut (0) and some of the cblB patients had the most severe clinical and biochemical manifestations, displaying non-inducible propionate incorporation in the presence of hydroxocobalamin (OHCbl) in vitro and high plasma odd-numbered long-chain fatty acid (OLCFA) concentrations under dietary therapy. In contrast, mut (-) and cblA patients exhibited a milder phenotype with propionate incorporation enhanced by OHCbl and normal OLCFA levels under dietary therapy. No missense mutations identified in the MUT gene, including mut (0) and mut (-) changes, affected mRNA stability. A new sequence variation (c.562G>C) in the MMAA gene was identified. Most of the cblA patients carried premature termination codons (PTC) in both alleles. Interestingly, the transcripts containing the PTC mutations were insensitive to nonsense-mediated decay (NMD).
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- B Merinero
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma, CIBER de Enfermedades Raras, Madrid, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Ugarte M. [Congenital disorders of glycosylation. Their diagnosis and treatment]. Rev Neurol 2006; 43 Suppl 1:S145-56. [PMID: 17061182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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INTRODUCTION Glycosylation disorders are alterations in the biosynthesis of either N-glycoproteins, O-glycoproteins or both. Most of these diseases are multisystemic and lead to severe psychomotor retardation. Since Jaeken reported the first disorder in the N-glycosylation of proteins in the 1980s, our knowledge of clinical glycobiology has increased considerably. Thus, glycosylation disorders now include specific tissue diseases, such as disorders affecting cellular signalling that give rise to anomalous cell growth (cancer), disorders of leukocyte traffic and congenital muscular dystrophies associated to alterations in neuronal migration. All these diseases are the result of the presence of very specific anomalous glycans, which are often difficult to detect in physiological fluids and for which new diagnostic tools have to be developed. DEVELOPMENT In this review, first, we outline the two most frequent routes for the glycosylation of proteins in humans, followed by a brief description of the associated genetic diseases and the diagnostic tools and therapies that are currently available. CONCLUSIONS Every year new disorders are detected in the N- and O-glycosylation routes, and due to the fact that there are an estimated 500 genes involved in the synthesis or the functioning of glycoproteins, it would seem that, taken together, those that are currently known may well be just the 'tip of the iceberg'.
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Facultad de Medicina, 28029 Madrid, Espana.
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Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Ruiz Sala P, Ferrer I, García MJ, Martínez Pardo M, Belanger-Quintana A, de la Mota JL, Martin-Hernández E, Vianey-Saban C, Bischoff C, Gregersen N, Ugarte M. Persistent increase of plasma butyryl/isobutyrylcarnitine concentrations as marker of SCAD defect and ethylmalonic encephalopathy. J Inherit Metab Dis 2006; 29:685. [PMID: 16906473 DOI: 10.1007/s10545-006-0342-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2006] [Revised: 06/22/2006] [Accepted: 07/07/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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High concentrations of butyryl/isobutyrylcarnitine (C(4)-carnitine) in plasma with increase of ethylmalonic acid (EMA) in urine point to different genetic entities, and further investigations are required to differentiate the possible underlying defect. Here we report three unrelated cases, two neurologically affected and one asymptomatic, with this abnormal metabolite pattern due either to mutations in the ETHE1 gene or to a short-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (SCAD) defect.
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- B Merinero
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Facultad Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain.
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In this report we summarize our experience in prenatal diagnosis of propionic acidemia (PA) since 1987. Overall, we have investigated 25 pregnancies at risk from 19 unrelated families. Until genetic structure of the genes involved in PA was elucidated, prenatal diagnosis has been successfully performed by means of metabolite quantitation and/or enzymatic assays in foetal issue. Today, direct propionyl-CoA carboxylase activity assay in combination with molecular analysis in chorion villi can be regarded as a fast and reliable method of choice for prenatal diagnosis of this organic acidemia.
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, CBM-SO, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Desviat LR, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Clavero S, Ugarte M. Propionic acidemia: mutation update and functional and structural effects of the variant alleles. Mol Genet Metab 2004; 83:28-37. [PMID: 15464417 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymgme.2004.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2004] [Revised: 07/27/2004] [Accepted: 08/02/2004] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Mutations in the PCCA or PCCB genes, encoding both subunits of propionyl-CoA carboxylase, result in propionic acidemia, a life-threatening inborn error of metabolism with autosomal recessive inheritance. To date, 41 mutations in the PCCA gene and 54 in the PCCB gene have been reported, most of them single base substitutions causing amino acid replacements, and a variety of small insertions and deletions and splicing defects. A greater heterogeneity is observed in the PCCA gene, specially in Caucasians, with no prevalent mutations, while in the Japanese population three mutations account for more than half of the alleles studied. For the PCCB gene a limited number of mutations is responsible for the majority of the alleles characterized in both Caucasian and Oriental populations. These two populations show a different mutational spectrum, only sharing some involving CpG dinucleotides probably as recurrent mutational events. Functional characterization of the mutant missense alleles has been accomplished using different prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems, and the structural consequences have been analyzed in the available crystal models. For the PCCA gene, the main molecular effect of the expressed mutations is related to protein instability, except two mutations in the active site predictably affecting ATP binding. In the PCCB gene the majority of the analyzed mutations are predicted to alter the active site conformation resulting in diminished activity. A few carboxy-terminal PCCB mutations affect the interaction between subunits and the assembly with PCCA to form a functional PCC oligomer. The amount of normal transcripts resulting from some PCCA and PCCB splicing mutations has also been analyzed. Overall, the data generated from the expression analysis reveal potential genotype-phenotype correlations for this clinically heterogeneous disorder.
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- L R Desviat
- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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Desviat LR, Pérez-Cerdá C, Pérez B, Esparza-Gordillo J, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Peñalva MA, Rodríguez De Córdoba S, Ugarte M. Functional analysis of MCCA and MCCB mutations causing methylcrotonylglycinuria. Mol Genet Metab 2003; 80:315-20. [PMID: 14680978 DOI: 10.1016/s1096-7192(03)00130-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2002] [Accepted: 06/16/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Methylcrotonylglycinuria (MCG; MIM 210200) is an autosomal recessive inherited human disorder caused by the deficiency of 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase (MCC, E.C.6.4.1.4), involved in leucine catabolism. This mitochondrial enzyme is one of the four biotin-dependent carboxylases known in humans. MCC is composed of two different types of subunits, alpha and beta, encoded by the nuclear genes MCCA and MCCB, respectively, recently cloned and characterized. Several mutations have been identified, in both genes, the majority are missense mutations along with splicing mutations and small insertions/deletions. We have expressed four missense mutations, two MCCA and two MCCB mapping to highly evolutionarily conserved residues, by transient transfection of SV40-transformed deficient fibroblasts in order to confirm their pathogenic effect. All the missense mutations expressed resulted in null or severely diminished MCC activity providing direct evidence that they are disease-causing ones. The MCCA mutations have been analysed in the context of three-dimensional structural information modelling the changes in the crystallized biotin carboxylase subunit of the Escherichia coli acetyl-CoA carboxylase. The apparent severity of all the MCC mutations contrasts with the variety of the clinical phenotypes suggesting that there are other cellular and metabolic unknown factors that affect the resulting phenotype.
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- L R Desviat
- Dpto. Biología Molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus de Cantoblanco, Madrid 28049, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Clavero S, Pérez B, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Desviat LR, Ugarte M. Functional analysis of PCCB mutations causing propionic acidemia based on expression studies in deficient human skin fibroblasts. Biochim Biophys Acta 2003; 1638:43-9. [PMID: 12757933 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4439(03)00039-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Propionic acidemia (PA) is a recessive disorder caused by a deficiency of propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC), a dodecameric enzyme composed of two different proteins alpha-PCC and beta-PCC, nuclear encoded by the PCCA and PCCB genes, respectively. Mutations in either gene cause PA and to date, up to 47 different allelic variations in the PCCB gene have been identified in different populations. In this work, we describe the expression studies of 18 PCCB sequence changes in order to elucidate their functional consequences. We have used a PCCB-deficient transformed fibroblast cell line to target the wild-type and mutant proteins to their physiological situation, analysing the effect of the mutations on PCC activity and protein stability. Of the 18 mutant proteins tested for activity, those carrying the L17M and A497V substitutions showed an activity similar to the wild-type one, which proves that these changes do not have any effect on protein activity. The other 16 mutant proteins exhibited two different functional behaviours, 3 retained substantial activity (K218R, R410W and N536D), and the remaining 13 proteins showed null or very low activity. Western blot analysis demonstrated instability only for the L519P, R512C and G112D mutant proteins. We have proved the pathogenicity of R67S, R165Q and G112D mutation in PCCB gene, expressed for the first time in this work. The information derived from the expression analysis is discussed in the phenotype and genotype context in order to improve the knowledge of this complex disease.
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Dpto. de Biología Molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Arranz JA, Piñol F, Kozak L, Pérez-Cerdá C, Cormand B, Ugarte M, Riudor E. Splicing mutations, mainly IVS6-1(G>T), account for 70% of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) gene alterations, including 7 novel mutations, in a survey of 29 tyrosinemia type I patients. Hum Mutat 2002; 20:180-8. [PMID: 12203990 DOI: 10.1002/humu.10084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Hereditary tyrosinemia type I (HTI) is an autosomal recessive disease characterized by a deficiency in fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH) activity. In this work, the FAH genotype was established in a group of 29 HTI patients, most of them from the Mediterranean area. We identified seven novel mutations-IVS8-1(G>A, IVS10-2(A>T), 938delC, E6/I6del26, W78X, Q328X, and G343W-and two previously described mutations-IVS6-1(G>T) and IVS12+5(G>A). Fully 92.8% of the patients were carriers of at least one splice site mutation, with IVS6-1(G>T) accounting for 58.9% of the total number of alleles. The splice mutation group of patients showed heterogeneous phenotypic patterns ranging from acute forms with severe liver malfunction to chronic forms with renal manifestations and slow progressive hepatic alterations. Qualitative FAH cDNA expression was the same in all IVS6-1(G>T) homozygous patients regardless of their clinical picture. One patient with a heterozygous combination of a nonsense (Q328X) and a frameshift (938delC) mutation showed an atypical clinical picture of hypotonia and repeated infections. Despite the high prevalence of IVS12+5(G>A) in the northwestern European population, we found only two patients with this mutation in our group.
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- J A Arranz
- Unitat de Malalties Neurometabòliques, Hospital Materno-Infantil Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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Castro M, Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, García MJ, Bernar J, Gil Nagel A, Torres J, Bermúdez M, Garavito P, Marie S, Vincent F, Van den Berghe G, Ugarte M. Screening for adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency: clinical, biochemical and molecular findings in four patients. Neuropediatrics 2002; 33:186-9. [PMID: 12368987 DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-34493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is an autosomal recessive defect of purine metabolism. Succinyladenosine (S-Ado) and succinylaminoimidazole carboxamide riboside (SAICAr) are the disease marker metabolites in physiological fluids. The Bratton-Marshall test for detection of SAICAr in urine has been added to the selective screening for inborn errors of metabolism that is carried out in our lab. During the last three years, around 2,000 patients have been screened by this method, resulting in the detection of four new cases with this disease. They all presented with severe psychomotor delay, hypotonia and refractory epilepsy since the neonatal period. The S-Ado/SAICAr ratio in cerebrospinal fluid was below 2, indicating that they correspond to the most severe form of the disease. New missense mutations were found in a heterozygous fashion in three patients. The study of purines in all patients with neurological disease of unknown etiology is highly recommended.
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- M Castro
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Departamento de Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Rodriguez-Pombo P, Pérez-Cerdá C, Desviat LR, Pérez B, Ugarte M, Rodríguez-Pombo P. Transfection screening for defects in the PCCA and PCCB genes encoding propionyl-CoA carboxylase subunits. Mol Genet Metab 2002; 75:276-9. [PMID: 11914040 DOI: 10.1006/mgme.2001.3296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Propionic acidemia can result from mutations in the PCCA or PCCB genes encoding the alpha and beta subunits, respectively, of propionyl-CoA carboxylase. We have developed a method based on complementation of the enzyme defect using a lipid-mediated transient transfection of the normal human PCCA or PCCB cDNA into primary fibroblasts. We demonstrate the reliability of this method for identification of the defective PCC gene in order to unequivocally approach the mutational analysis in the corresponding PCCA and PCCB genes.
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Muro S, Pérez B, Desviat LR, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Pérez-Cerdá C, Clavero S, Ugarte M. Effect of PCCB gene mutations on the heteromeric and homomeric assembly of propionyl-CoA carboxylase. Mol Genet Metab 2001; 74:476-83. [PMID: 11749052 DOI: 10.1006/mgme.2001.3254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Propionic acidemia is an inherited metabolic disorder caused by deficiency of propionyl-CoA carboxylase, a dodecameric enzyme composed of alpha-PCC and beta-PCC subunits (encoded by genes PCCA and PCCB) that have been associated with a number of mutations responsible for this disease. To clarify the molecular effect associated with gene alterations causing propionic acidemia, 12 different mutations affecting the PCCB gene (R67S, S106R, G131R, R165W, R165Q, E168K, G198D, A497V, R512C, L519P, W531X, and N536D) were analyzed for their involvement in alpha-beta heteromeric and beta-beta homomeric assembly. The experiments were performed using the mammalian two-hybrid system, which was assayed at two different temperatures to distinguish between mutations directly involved in interaction and those probably affecting polypeptide folding, thus indirectly affecting the correct assembly. Mutations R512C, L519P, W531X, and N536D, located at the carboxyl-terminal end of the PCCB gene, were found to inhibit alpha-beta heteromeric and/or the beta-beta homomeric interaction independently of the cultivation temperature, reflecting their primary effect on the assembly. Two mutations A497V and R165Q did not affect either heteromeric or homomeric assembly. The remaining mutations (R67S, S106R, G131D, R165W, E168K, and G198D), located in the amino-terminal region of the beta-polypeptide, resulted in normal interaction levels only when expressed at the lower temperature, suggesting that these changes could be considered as folding defects. From these results and the clinical manifestations associated with patients bearing the mutations described above, several genotype-phenotype correlations may be established. In general, the temperature-sensitive mutations are associated with a less severe, although variable phenotype. This could correlate with the recent hypothesis that the effect of folding mutations can be influenced by the capacity of the cellular protein quality control machinery, which provides clues to our understanding of the variability of the clinical symptoms observed among the patients bearing these mutations.
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- S Muro
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain
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Muro S, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Desviat LR, Sperl W, Skladal D, Sass JO, Ugarte M. Identification of novel mutations in the PCCB gene in European propionic acidemia patients. Mutation in brief no. 253. Online. Hum Mutat 2000; 14:89-90. [PMID: 10447268 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1004(1999)14:1<89::aid-humu18>3.0.co;2-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) is a biotin-dependent enzyme located in the mitochondrial matrix. Mutations in the PCCA and PCCB genes, which encode the a and b subunits of this heteropolymer, result in propionic acidemia (PA). We report the molecular analysis of b-deficient patients from Spain and Austria. Subjects were screened for defects affecting the PCCB gene by direct sequencing from genomic PCR products, restriction digests and mRNA analysis by RT-PCR. Study by western blot of the presence of immunoreactive b-PCC protein was also performed. A total of four novel sequence variations were found including the point mutations V205D, and M442T, and the frameshift mutation 790-791insG. Additionally, a new point change, L17M, was identified on the same allele as 790-791insG. The missense changes described above were not found in at least 40 control chromosomes analyzed. The Austrian patients were homozygous for V205D. One of the Spanish subjects was heterozygous for M442T and the known mutation c1170insT. The other Spanish patient carried L17M+790-791insG on one allele, and the described mutation E168K on the other mutant chromosome. The mutations V205D and M442T were confirmed at RNA level and also we have detected the presence of immunoreactive b-PCC protein translated from these mutant alleles. The patient having L17M+790-791insG and E168K also presented immunoreactive b-PCC protein. However, no cDNA product was obtained from the chromosome carrying L17M+790-791insG. We propose that 790-791insG, which causes a frameshift and a premature stop codon, is responsible for this finding. In any case, the translation from this mutant cDNA would produce a severity truncated peptide and, in consequence, a non-functional protein. Expression analysis of all these changes will help us to clarify their structural/functional consequences.
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- S Muro
- Departamento de Biología Molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Muro S, Pérez B, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Desviat LR, Pérez-Cerdá C, Ugarte M. Mutations affecting the beta-beta homomeric interaction in propionic acidaemia: an approach to the determination of the beta-propionyl-CoA carboxylase functional domains. J Inherit Metab Dis 2000; 23:300-4. [PMID: 10896279 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005617420460] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- S Muro
- Departamento de Biología Molecular, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Pérez B, Desviat LR, Muro S, Richard E, García MJ, Gangoiti J, Ruiz Sala P, Sanz P, Briones P, Ribes A, Martínez-Pardo M, Campistol J, Pérez M, Lama R, Murga ML, Lema-Garrett T, Verdú A, Ugarte M. Potential relationship between genotype and clinical outcome in propionic acidaemia patients. Eur J Hum Genet 2000; 8:187-94. [PMID: 10780784 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200442] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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Propionic acidaemia (PA) is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by mutations in either of the PCCA or PCCB genes which encode the alpha and beta subunits, respectively, of the mitochondrial enzyme propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC). In this work we have examined the biochemical findings and clinical outcome of 37 Spanish PA patients in relation to the mutations found in both PCCA and PCCB genes. We have detected 27 early-onset and 101 late-onset cases, showing remarkably similar biochemical features without relation to either the age of onset of the disease or the defective gene they have. Twenty-one of the patients have so far survived and three of them, now adolescents, present normal development. Different biochemical procedures allowed us to identify the defective gene in 9 PCCA deficient and 28 PCCB deficient patients. Nine putative disease-causing mutations accounting for 77.7% of mutant alleles were identified among PCCA deficient patients, each one carrying a unique genotypic combination. Of PCCB mutant alleles 98% were characterised. Four common mutations (ins/del, E168K, 1170insT and A497V) were found in 38/52 mutant chromosomes investigated, whereas the remainder of the alleles harbour 12 other different mutations. By examining the mutations identified both in PCCA and PCCB genes and the clinical evolution of patients, we have found a good correlation between certain mutations which can be considered as null with a severe phenotype, while certain missense mutations tend to be related to the late and mild forms of the disease. Expression studies, particularly of the missense mutations identified are necessary but other genetic and environmental factors probably contribute to the phenotypic variability observed in PA.
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain
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Merinero B, Pascual Pascual SI, Pérez-Cerdá C, Gangoiti J, Castro M, Garcia MJ, Pascual Castroviejo I, Vianey-Saban C, Andresen B, Gregersen N, Ugarte M. Adolescent myopathic presentation in two sisters with very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency. J Inherit Metab Dis 1999; 22:802-10. [PMID: 10518280 DOI: 10.1023/a:1005553907216] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Two sisters were investigated at the ages of 20 and 13 years owing to persistently increased serum creatine kinase and recurrent episodes of rhabdomyolysis after emotional stress in the older and myalgias in the younger. The finding of increased levels of cis-5-tetradecenoic acid (C14:1) in plasma, severe hypocarnitinaemia and the absence of a pathological dicarboxylic aciduria in both sisters suggested a very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (VLCAD) deficiency. Reduced [1-(14)C]palmitate oxidation and deficient mitochondrial VLCAD activity in fibroblasts were found. Mutation analysis revealed compound heterozygosity for Asp365His and Arg410His changes. This late-onset, milder clinical presentation differs from the other two more severe infantile phenotypes described, since there is no hypoglycaemia or cardiac disease. Fatty acid oxidation defects should be investigated in all cases with rhabdomyolysis beginning in adolescence or early adulthood.
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- B Merinero
- Dpto. Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma Madrid, Spain
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Ugarte M, Pérez-Cerdá C, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Desviat LR, Pérez B, Richard E, Muro S, Campeau E, Ohura T, Gravel RA. Overview of mutations in the PCCA and PCCB genes causing propionic acidemia. Hum Mutat 1999; 14:275-82. [PMID: 10502773 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-1004(199910)14:4<275::aid-humu1>3.0.co;2-n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Propionic acidemia is an inborn error of metabolism caused by a deficiency of propionyl-CoA carboxylase, a heteropolymeric mitochondrial enzyme involved in the catabolism of branched chain amino acids, odd-numbered chain length fatty acids, cholesterol, and other metabolites. The enzyme is composed of alpha and beta subunits which are encoded by the PCCA and PCCB genes, respectively. Mutations in both genes can cause propionic acidemia. The identification of the responsible gene, previous to mutation analysis, can be performed by complementation assay or, in some instances, can be deduced from peculiarities relevant to either gene, including obtaining normal enzyme activity in the parents of many patients with PCCB mutations, observing combined absence of alpha and beta subunits by Western blot of many PCCA patients, as well as conventional mRNA-minus result of Northern blots for either gene or beta subunit deficiency in PCCB patients. Mutations in both the PCCA and PCCB genes have been identified by sequencing either RT-PCR products or amplified exonic fragments, the latter specifically for the PCCB gene for which the genomic structure is available. To date, 24 mutations in the PCCA gene and 29 in the PCCB gene have been reported, most of them single base substitutions causing amino acid replacements and a variety of splicing defects. A greater heterogeneity is observed in the PCCA gene-no mutation is predominant in the populations studied-while for the PCCB gene, a limited number of mutations is responsible for the majority of the alleles characterized in both Caucasian and Oriental populations. These two populations show a different spectrum of mutations, only sharing some involving CpG dinucleotides, probably as recurrent mutational events. Future analysis of the mutations identified, of their functional effect and their clinical relevance, will reveal potential genotype-phenotype correlations for this clinically heterogeneous disorder.
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- M Ugarte
- Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa," CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain.
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Richard E, Desviat LR, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Ugarte M. Genetic heterogeneity in propionic acidemia patients with alpha-subunit defects. Identification of five novel mutations, one of them causing instability of the protein. Biochim Biophys Acta 1999; 1453:351-8. [PMID: 10101253 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4439(99)00008-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The inherited metabolic disease propionic acidemia (PA) can result from mutations in either of the genes PCCA or PCCB, which encode the alpha and beta subunits, respectively, of the mitochondrial enzyme propionyl CoA-carboxylase. In this work we have analyzed the molecular basis of PCCA gene defects, studying mRNA levels and identifying putative disease causing mutations. A total of 10 different mutations, none predominant, are present in a sample of 24 mutant alleles studied. Five novel mutations are reported here for the first time. A neutral polymorphism and a variant allele present in the general population were also detected. To examine the effect of a point mutation (M348K) involving a highly conserved residue, we have carried out in vitro expression of normal and mutant PCCA cDNA and analyzed the mitochondrial import and stability of the resulting proteins. Both wild-type and mutant proteins were imported into mitochondria and processed into the mature form with similar efficiency, but the mature mutant M348K protein decayed more rapidly than did the wild-type, indicating a reduced stability, which is probably the disease-causing mechanism.
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- E Richard
- Departamento de Biología Molecular and Centro de Biología Molecular 'Severo Ochoa', CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain
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Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Garcia MJ, Chadefaux-Vekemans B, Kamoun P, Tonetti C, Zittoun J, Jakobs C, Ugarte M. Reliability of biochemical parameters used in prenatal diagnosis of combined methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria. Prenat Diagn 1998; 18:947-52. [PMID: 9793978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Prenatal diagnosis for combined methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria was performed in five at-risk pregnancies by determination of methylmalonic acid (MMA) and total homocysteine (Hcy) in amniotic fluid supernatant. The incorporation rate of [14C] propionate (+/- OHCbl) and the synthesis of cobalamin derivatives in cultured amniocytes were investigated as well as the [14C] MTHF incorporation rate in intact chorion biopsy. Our experience showed that total Hcy and MMA were clearly elevated in amniotic fluid of affected fetuses. Both the study of [14C] propionate incorporation and that of cobalamin synthesis in cultured amniocytes are useful to confirm the results of metabolite determination. The incorporation of [14C] MTHF in intact chorion biopsy seems not to be a reliable diagnostic method.
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- B Merinero
- Departamento Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Garcia MJ, Chadefaux-Vekemans B, Kamoun P, Tonetti C, Zittoun J, Jakobs C, Ugarte M. Reliability of biochemical parameters used in prenatal diagnosis of combined methylmalonic aciduria and homocystinuria. Prenat Diagn 1998. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0223(199809)18:9<947::aid-pd363>3.0.co;2-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Rodríguez-Pombo P, Hoenicka J, Muro S, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Richard E, Desviat LR, Ugarte M. Human propionyl-CoA carboxylase beta subunit gene: exon-intron definition and mutation spectrum in Spanish and Latin American propionic acidemia patients. Am J Hum Genet 1998; 63:360-9. [PMID: 9683601 PMCID: PMC1377311 DOI: 10.1086/301970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) is a mitochondrial biotin-dependent enzyme composed of an equal number of alpha and beta subunits. Mutations in the PCCA (alpha subunit) or PCCB (beta subunit) gene can cause the inherited metabolic disease propionic acidemia (PA), which can be life threatening in the neonatal period. Lack of data on the genomic structure of PCCB has been a significant impediment to full characterization of PCCB mutant chromosomes. In this study, we describe the genomic organization of the coding sequence of the human PCCB gene and the characterization of mutations causing PA in a total of 29 unrelated patients-21 from Spain and 8 from Latin America. The implementation of long-distance PCR has allowed us to amplify the regions encompassing the exon/intron boundaries and all the exons. The gene consists of 15 exons of 57-183 bp in size. All splice sites are consistent with the gt/ag rule. The availability of the intron sequences flanking each exon has provided the basis for implementation of screening for mutations in the PCCB gene. A total of 56/58 mutant chromosomes studied have been defined, with a total of 16 different mutations detected. The mutation spectrum includes one insertion/deletion, two insertions, 10 missense mutations, one nonsense mutation, and two splicing defects. Thirteen of these mutations correspond to those not described yet in other populations. The mutation profile found in the chromosomes from the Latin American patients basically resembles that of the Spanish patients.
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- P Rodríguez-Pombo
- Departamento de Biología Molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular "Severo Ochoa" Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Hoenicka J, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Pérez-Cerdá C, Muro S, Richard E, Ugarte M. New frequent mutation in the PCCB gene in Spanish propionic acidemia patients. Hum Mutat 1998; Suppl 1:S234-6. [PMID: 9452096 DOI: 10.1002/humu.1380110175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- J Hoenicka
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, Martí M, Cabrera JC, Peña L, García MJ, Gangoiti J, Sanz P, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Hoenicka J, Richard E, Muro S, Ugarte M. An unusual late-onset case of propionic acidaemia: biochemical investigations, neuroradiological findings and mutation analysis. Eur J Pediatr 1998; 157:50-2. [PMID: 9461363 DOI: 10.1007/s004310050765] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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UNLABELLED We report a 5-year-old boy with propionic acidaemia who developed a rapidly fatal necrosis of the basal ganglia after an episode of clinical deterioration. Neither metabolic acidosis nor hyperammonaemia were present. Organic acid analysis in both urine and CSF showed increased levels of methylcitric and 3-hydroxypropionic acids. Propionic acidaemia was confirmed by demonstrating a propionyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency (11% of control value) in skin fibroblasts. DNA analysis revealed that the patient was a compound heterozygote for two mutations in the PCCB gene. CONCLUSION Propionic acidaemia can present as a sudden and fatal neurological disease and not only as an organic aciduria with severe biochemical dis-turbances and progressive neurological deterioration.
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Department of Molecular Biology, CBMSO, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Casale CH, Casals N, Pié J, Zapater N, Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, Martínez-Pardo M, García-Peñas JJ, García-Gonzalez JM, Lama R, Poll-The BT, Smeitink JA, Wanders RJ, Ugarte M, Hegardt FG. A nonsense mutation in the exon 2 of the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A lyase (HL) gene producing three mature mRNAs is the main cause of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric aciduria in European Mediterranean patients. Arch Biochem Biophys 1998; 349:129-37. [PMID: 9439591 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1997.0456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaric aciduria is a rare recessive monogenic disorder that affects ketogenesis and the catabolism of L-leucine. We report the biochemical and molecular characterization of a mutation in the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A lyase gene in four new probands, three Spanish and one Turkish, affected by 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric aciduria, all homozygous for the nonsense mutation Glu37Ter, which was reported by our group in two probands of Portuguese and Moroccan origin (15). In addition to the aberrant mRNAs found in the two previous probands, a novel species of mature HL mRNA was observed in the patients studied here, since a new cDNA, skipped in exons 2 and 3, was obtained from the mRNAs by reverse-transcription PCR (RT-PCR). Thus, three mRNA species were produced in aberrant splicings as a result of this nonsense mutation: (i) one of the expected size that contains the premature stop codon UAA, (ii) another with a deletion of 84 bp corresponding to the whole of exon 2, and (iii) a new species found now, with a deletion of 192 bp corresponding to skipping of the whole of exons 2 and 3, whose translation product led to the loss of seven amino acids in the leader peptide and 57 amino acids in the terminal domain of the mature enzyme. The association of a nonsense mutation with the skipping of the exon that contains it, plus the following exon, is an unusual finding not seen previously in HL deficiencies. The mutation described here shows the highest incidence (> 37%) of total HL deficiencies reported.
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- C H Casale
- Unit of Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Spain
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Richard E, Desviat LR, Pérez B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Ugarte M. Three novel splice mutations in the PCCA gene causing identical exon skipping in propionic acidemia patients. Hum Genet 1997; 101:93-6. [PMID: 9385377 DOI: 10.1007/s004390050593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Propionyl-CoA carboxylase (PCC) is a mitochondrial, biotin-dependent enzyme involved in the catabolism of branched chain amino acids, odd chain fatty acids, and other metabolites. PCC consists of non-identical subunits, alpha and beta, encoded by the PCCA and PCCB genes, respectively. Inherited deficiency of PCC due to mutations in either the PCCA or the PCCB gene results in propionic acidemia (PA), a clinically heterogeneous disorder with a severe, often lethal, neonatal form, and a mild, later onset form. To characterize PCCA gene mutations responsible for PCC deficiency, we analyzed RT-PCR products obtained from cultured fibroblasts from Spanish PCC-alpha deficient patients. In three patients, smaller than normal PCR products were observed, and sequence analysis revealed the deletion of a 54-bp exon in the cDNA. Sequencing of genomic DNA from these three patients led to the identification of three novel mutations in the PCCA gene, two short deletions and one small insertion, adjacent to short direct repeats, and all of them affecting the consensus splice sites of the skipped exon. These mutations, 1771IVS-2del9, 1824IVS+3del4, and 1824IVS+3insCT, are the cause of the aberrant splicing of the PCCA pre-mRNA and result in an in-frame deletion of 54 nucleotides in the cDNA, probably leading to an unstable protein structure which is responsible for the lack of activity leading to PCC deficiency in these patients.
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- E Richard
- Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC-UAM, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Kassovska-Bratinova S, Fukao T, Song XQ, Duncan AM, Chen HS, Robert MF, Pérez-Cerdá C, Ugarte M, Chartrand C, Vobecky S, Kondo N, Mitchell GA. Succinyl CoA: 3-oxoacid CoA transferase (SCOT): human cDNA cloning, human chromosomal mapping to 5p13, and mutation detection in a SCOT-deficient patient. Am J Hum Genet 1996; 59:519-28. [PMID: 8751852 PMCID: PMC1914926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Succinyl CoA: 3-oxoacid CoA transferase (SCOT; E.C.2.8.3.5) mediates the rate-determining step of ketolysis in extrahepatic tissues, the esterification of acetoacetate to CoA for use in energy production. Hereditary SCOT deficiency in humans causes episodes of severe ketoacidosis. We obtained human-heart SCOT cDNA clones spanning the entire 1,560-nt coding sequence. Sequence alignment of the human SCOT peptides with other known CoA transferases revealed several conserved regions of potential functional importance. A single approximately 3.2-kb SCOT mRNA is present in human tissues (heart > leukocytes >> fibroblasts), but no signal is detectable in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2. We mapped the human SCOT locus (OXCT) to the cytogenetic band 5p13 by in situ hybridization. From fibroblasts of a patient with hereditary SCOT deficiency, we amplified and cloned cDNA fragments containing the entire SCOT coding sequence. We found a homozygous C-to-G transversion at nt 848, which changes the Ser 283 codon to a stop codon. This mutation (S283X) is incompatible with normal enzyme function and represents the first documentation of a pathogenic mutation in SCOT deficiency.
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Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Garcia MJ, Gangoiti J, Font LM, Garcia Silva MT, Vianey-Saban C, Duran M, Ugarte M. Mitochondrial very long-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency with a mild clinical course. J Inherit Metab Dis 1996; 19:173-6. [PMID: 8739958 DOI: 10.1007/bf01799422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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- B Merinero
- Dpto. Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Font LM, Garcia MJ, Aparicio M, Lorenzo G, Martinez Pardo M, Garzo C, Martinez-Bermejo A, Pascual Castroviejo I. Variable clinical and biochemical presentation of seven Spanish cases with glutaryl-CoA-dehydrogenase deficiency. Neuropediatrics 1995; 26:238-42. [PMID: 8552212 DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-979763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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In this report, we describe seven new patients with a severe deficiency of glutaryl-CoA dehydrogenase in cultured skin fibroblasts. Three of the patients studied excreted high levels of glutaric acid. The remaining four patients presented a lack of significant glutaric aciduria. However, glutaric acid was found in increased levels in CSF. In both groups of patients, the urine glutaric acid levels were not related to their metabolic condition at the time of sampling. Hypocarnitinemia was a common finding. Some patients also showed defects on respiratory chain complexes in muscle biopsy. Only one patient has a normal psychomotor development. The other six patients are severely handicapped despite the attempts of different therapies. In patients with progressive neurological deterioration with dystonia and cerebellar signs associated with temporal lobe atrophy and bilateral basal ganglia damage on MRI, a glutaric aciduria type I (GA I) should always be investigated. The presence of glutaric acid in body fluids, especially in CSF, as well as plasma carnitine levels, should be determined. These procedures can lead to the diagnosis of glutaric aciduria type I.
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- B Merinero
- Dpto. Biología Molecular, CBMSO, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, Sanz P, Castro M, Gangoiti J, García MJ, Díaz M, Medina E, Ugarte M. Liver transplantation in nine Spanish patients with tyrosinaemia type I. J Inherit Metab Dis 1995; 18:119-22. [PMID: 7564224 DOI: 10.1007/bf00711744] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Rodríguez-Pombo P, Ugarte M. Identification of the insertion/deletion mutation in Spanish beta-propionyl-CoA carboxylase-deficient patients. J Inherit Metab Dis 1994; 17:661-3. [PMID: 7707688 DOI: 10.1007/bf00712007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Dept de Biología Molecular, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa CSIC-UAM, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, Jiménez A, García MJ, Sanz P, Ijlst L, Wanders RJ, Ugarte M. First report of prenatal diagnosis of long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency in a pregnancy at risk. Prenat Diagn 1993; 13:529-33. [PMID: 8372080 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970130616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Prenatal diagnosis of long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase (3-HAD) deficiency was performed in a family at risk. The diagnosis of an affected fetus was carried out by enzyme assay in cultured chorionic villus cells.
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Dpto Biología Molecular, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
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Garcia-Muñoz MJ, Belloque J, Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Sanz P, Ugarte M. Non-ketotic hyperglycinaemia: glycine/serine ratio in amniotic fluid--an unreliable method for prenatal diagnosis. Prenat Diagn 1989; 9:473-6. [PMID: 2505247 DOI: 10.1002/pd.1970090704] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We describe a prenatal diagnosis of a fetus at risk for non-ketotic hyperglycinaemia based on the glycine/serine ratio in amniotic fluid at 16 weeks of gestation. Although the glycine level and the glycine/serine ratio in amniotic fluid were within the normal range, the fetus was affected and therefore a false-negative prediction was made. The reliability of this method is questioned.
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- M J Garcia-Muñoz
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Dpto. Biología Molecular, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
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Pérez-Cerdá C, Merinero B, Sanz P, Jiménez A, García MJ, Urbón A, Díaz Recasens J, Ramos C, Ayuso C, Ugarte M. Successful first trimester diagnosis in a pregnancy at risk for propionic acidaemia. J Inherit Metab Dis 1989; 12 Suppl 2:274-6. [PMID: 2512424 DOI: 10.1007/bf03335396] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- C Pérez-Cerdá
- Centro de Diagnóstico de Enfermedades Moleculares, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
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Del Valle JA, Garcia MJ, Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Roman F, Jimenez A, Ugarte M, Martínez-Pardo M, Ludeña C, Camarero C. A new patient with dicarboxylic aciduria suggestive of medium-chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency presenting as Reye's syndrome. J Inherit Metab Dis 1984; 7:62-4. [PMID: 6434827 DOI: 10.1007/bf01805804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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A new patient with medium-chain dicarboxylic aciduria and suberyl glycinuria during an attack of acute illness is reported. When, inadvertently he was given medium-chain triglycerides for 2 days, the excretion of abnormal metabolites of medium-chain fatty acids increased and hepatomegaly became more pronounced. During remission a low excretion of the metabolites were observed. After 16 h of fasting hypoglycaemia was accompanied by an increase of urinary dicarboxylic acids and psi-hydroxyacids similar to that found on admission. Interestingly this urinary organic acid pattern persisted 8 h after intravenous administration of glucose. In a blood sample obtained after 16 h of fasting there was hypoketonaemia and increased levels of total free fatty acids, octanoic, decanoic and cis-4-decenoic acids. These biochemical data suggest the existence of a deficiency at the level of medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase.
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del Valle JA, Merinero B, Pérez-Cerdá C, Ugarte M. [Human fibroblast bank for studying amino acid disorders and organic acidemias]. Rev Esp Fisiol 1982; 38 Suppl:207-210. [PMID: 7146578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The establishment of a fibroblast bank from patients with biochemical alterations in the metabolism of aminoacids and organic acids has been initiated. The patients suffered from distinct variants of maple syrup urine disease, propionic acidaemia, methylmalonic acidaemia, lactic acidosis and hyperglycinuria. Thirty six human cell lines corresponding to patients with these diseases, their relatives and control individuals have been accumulated.
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