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Ferdinandusse S, Friederich MW, Burlina A, Ruiter JPN, Coughlin CR, Dishop MK, Gallagher RC, Bedoyan JK, Vaz FM, Waterham HR, Gowan K, Chatfield K, Bloom K, Bennett MJ, Elpeleg O, Van Hove JLK, Wanders RJA. Clinical and biochemical characterization of four patients with mutations in ECHS1. Orphanet J Rare Dis 2015; 10:79. [PMID: 26081110 PMCID: PMC4474341 DOI: 10.1186/s13023-015-0290-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2015] [Accepted: 05/29/2015] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Short-chain enoyl-CoA hydratase (SCEH, encoded by ECHS1) catalyzes hydration of 2-trans-enoyl-CoAs to 3(S)-hydroxy-acyl-CoAs. SCEH has a broad substrate specificity and is believed to play an important role in mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation and in the metabolism of branched-chain amino acids. Recently, the first patients with SCEH deficiency have been reported revealing only a defect in valine catabolism. We investigated the role of SCEH in fatty acid and branched-chain amino acid metabolism in four newly identified patients. In addition, because of the Leigh-like presentation, we studied enzymes involved in bioenergetics. METHODS Metabolite, enzymatic, protein and genetic analyses were performed in four patients, including two siblings. Palmitate loading studies in fibroblasts were performed to study mitochondrial β-oxidation. In addition, enoyl-CoA hydratase activity was measured with crotonyl-CoA, methacrylyl-CoA, tiglyl-CoA and 3-methylcrotonyl-CoA both in fibroblasts and liver to further study the role of SCEH in different metabolic pathways. Analyses of pyruvate dehydrogenase and respiratory chain complexes were performed in multiple tissues of two patients. RESULTS All patients were either homozygous or compound heterozygous for mutations in the ECHS1 gene, had markedly reduced SCEH enzymatic activity and protein level in fibroblasts. All patients presented with lactic acidosis. The first two patients presented with vacuolating leukoencephalopathy and basal ganglia abnormalities. The third patient showed a slow neurodegenerative condition with global brain atrophy and the fourth patient showed Leigh-like lesions with a single episode of metabolic acidosis. Clinical picture and metabolite analysis were not consistent with a mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation disorder, which was supported by the normal palmitate loading test in fibroblasts. Patient fibroblasts displayed deficient hydratase activity with different substrates tested. Pyruvate dehydrogenase activity was markedly reduced in particular in muscle from the most severely affected patients, which was caused by reduced expression of E2 protein, whereas E2 mRNA was increased. CONCLUSIONS Despite its activity towards substrates from different metabolic pathways, SCEH appears to be only crucial in valine metabolism, but not in isoleucine metabolism, and only of limited importance for mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation. In severely affected patients SCEH deficiency can cause a secondary pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency contributing to the clinical presentation.
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- Sacha Ferdinandusse
- Departments of Clinical Chemistry and Pediatrics, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, AZ, 1105, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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- Department of Paediatrics, Division of Metabolic Diseases, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy.
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- Departments of Clinical Chemistry and Pediatrics, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, AZ, 1105, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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- Department of Pathology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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- Center for Inherited Disorders of Energy Metabolism (CIDEM), University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA. .,Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA.
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- Departments of Clinical Chemistry and Pediatrics, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, AZ, 1105, The Netherlands.
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- Departments of Clinical Chemistry and Pediatrics, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, AZ, 1105, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. .,Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U74SA, USA.
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- Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, U74SA, USA.
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- Monique and Jacques Roboh Department of Genetic Research, Hadassah, Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
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- Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.
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- Departments of Clinical Chemistry and Pediatrics, Laboratory Genetic Metabolic Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, AZ, 1105, The Netherlands.
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Baker PR, Friederich MW, Swanson MA, Shaikh T, Bhattacharya K, Scharer GH, Aicher J, Creadon-Swindell G, Geiger E, MacLean KN, Lee WT, Deshpande C, Freckmann ML, Shih LY, Wasserstein M, Rasmussen MB, Lund AM, Procopis P, Cameron JM, Robinson BH, Brown GK, Brown RM, Compton AG, Dieckmann CL, Collard R, Coughlin CR, Spector E, Wempe MF, Van Hove JLK. Variant non ketotic hyperglycinemia is caused by mutations in LIAS, BOLA3 and the novel gene GLRX5. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 137:366-79. [PMID: 24334290 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awt328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 155] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Patients with nonketotic hyperglycinemia and deficient glycine cleavage enzyme activity, but without mutations in AMT, GLDC or GCSH, the genes encoding its constituent proteins, constitute a clinical group which we call 'variant nonketotic hyperglycinemia'. We hypothesize that in some patients the aetiology involves genetic mutations that result in a deficiency of the cofactor lipoate, and sequenced genes involved in lipoate synthesis and iron-sulphur cluster biogenesis. Of 11 individuals identified with variant nonketotic hyperglycinemia, we were able to determine the genetic aetiology in eight patients and delineate the clinical and biochemical phenotypes. Mutations were identified in the genes for lipoate synthase (LIAS), BolA type 3 (BOLA3), and a novel gene glutaredoxin 5 (GLRX5). Patients with GLRX5-associated variant nonketotic hyperglycinemia had normal development with childhood-onset spastic paraplegia, spinal lesion, and optic atrophy. Clinical features of BOLA3-associated variant nonketotic hyperglycinemia include severe neurodegeneration after a period of normal development. Additional features include leukodystrophy, cardiomyopathy and optic atrophy. Patients with lipoate synthase-deficient variant nonketotic hyperglycinemia varied in severity from mild static encephalopathy to Leigh disease and cortical involvement. All patients had high serum and borderline elevated cerebrospinal fluid glycine and cerebrospinal fluid:plasma glycine ratio, and deficient glycine cleavage enzyme activity. They had low pyruvate dehydrogenase enzyme activity but most did not have lactic acidosis. Patients were deficient in lipoylation of mitochondrial proteins. There were minimal and inconsistent changes in cellular iron handling, and respiratory chain activity was unaffected. Identified mutations were phylogenetically conserved, and transfection with native genes corrected the biochemical deficiency proving pathogenicity. Treatments of cells with lipoate and with mitochondrially-targeted lipoate were unsuccessful at correcting the deficiency. The recognition of variant nonketotic hyperglycinemia is important for physicians evaluating patients with abnormalities in glycine as this will affect the genetic causation and genetic counselling, and provide prognostic information on the expected phenotypic course.
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- Peter R Baker
- 1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado, 80045, USA
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Seyda A, Newbold RF, Hudson TJ, Verner A, MacKay N, Winter S, Feigenbaum A, Malaney S, Gonzalez-Halphen D, Cuthbert AP, Robinson BH. A novel syndrome affecting multiple mitochondrial functions, located by microcell-mediated transfer to chromosome 2p14-2p13. Am J Hum Genet 2001; 68:386-96. [PMID: 11156534 PMCID: PMC1235272 DOI: 10.1086/318196] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2000] [Accepted: 11/28/2000] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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We have studied cultured skin fibroblasts from three siblings and one unrelated individual, all of whom had fatal mitochondrial disease manifesting soon after birth. After incubation with 1 mM glucose, these four cell strains exhibited lactate/pyruvate ratios that were six times greater than those of controls. On further analysis, enzymatic activities of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, the 2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex, NADH cytochrome c reductase, succinate dehydrogenase, and succinate cytochrome c reductase were severely deficient. In two of the siblings the enzymatic activity of cytochrome oxidase was mildly decreased (by approximately 50%). Metabolite analysis performed on urine samples taken from these patients revealed high levels of glycine, leucine, valine, and isoleucine, indicating abnormalities of both the glycine-cleavage system and branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase. In contrast, the activities of fibroblast pyruvate carboxylase, mitochondrial aconitase, and citrate synthase were normal. Immunoblot analysis of selected complex III subunits (core 1, cyt c(1), and iron-sulfur protein) and of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex subunits revealed no visible changes in the levels of all examined proteins, decreasing the possibility that an import and/or assembly factor is involved. To elucidate the underlying molecular defect, analysis of microcell-mediated chromosome-fusion was performed between the present study's fibroblasts (recipients) and a panel of A9 mouse:human hybrids (donors) developed by Cuthbert et al. (1995). Complementation was observed between the recipient cells from both families and the mouse:human hybrid clone carrying human chromosome 2. These results indicate that the underlying defect in our patients is under the control of a nuclear gene, the locus of which is on chromosome 2. A 5-cM interval has been identified as potentially containing the critical region for the unknown gene. This interval maps to region 2p14-2p13.
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- Agnieszka Seyda
- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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- Metabolism Research Programme, Research Institute and Division of Clinical Genetics, Hospital for Sick Children, and Departments of Biochemistry and Paediatrics, University of Toronto, Toronto; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, Montréal General Hospital, Montréal; Medical Genetics/Metabolism, Valley Children’s Hospital, Fresno, CA; Garvin Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia; Departamento de Bioenergetica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City; and Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Guy’s Hospital, London
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