| Autor: |
Danpure CJ; Biochemical Genetics Research Group, MRC Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, Middlesex, UK., Fryer P, Griffiths S, Guttridge KM, Jennings PR, Allsop J, Moser AB, Naidu S, Moser HW, MacCollin M, et. al. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Journal of inherited metabolic disease [J Inherit Metab Dis] 1994; Vol. 17 (1), pp. 27-40. |
| DOI: |
10.1007/BF00735393 |
| Abstrakt: |
Two patients with atypical manifestations of aberrant peroxisomal biogenesis are described. Contrary to previous studies, which had shown that Zellweger syndrome patients usually have normal levels of urinary oxalate excretion, the patients in the present study had evidence of abnormal oxalate metabolism in the form of hyperoxaluria and, in one of the patients, calcium oxalate urolithiasis. Activity of the liver-specific peroxisomal enzyme alanine:-glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT), which is a major determinant of the level of endogenous oxalate synthesis in humans, was normal in one patient and markedly supranormal in the other. Using the technique of post-embedding protein A-colloidal gold immunoelectron microscopy, AGT was found to be mainly cytosolic in the livers of both patients, with significant amounts also localized in the nuclei. In a small minority of the hepatocytes of one patient, who was homozygous for the more common (major) AGT allele, large numbers of unidentified fibrillar arrays were found in the cytosol, which labelled heavily for immunoreactive AGT. The background cytosolic AGT labelling was markedly reduced in such cells when compared to the majority of cells that did not contain fibrils. In the other patient, who was heterozygous for the major and minor AGT alleles, there appeared to be low levels of mitochondrial AGT labelling. In the light of these data, the possible metabolic function of cytosolic AGT in the livers of panperoxisomal disease patients is discussed. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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