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Paul MJ, Gonzalez-Uriarte A, Griffiths CA, Hassani-Pak K. The Role of Trehalose 6-Phosphate in Crop Yield and Resilience. Plant Physiol 2018; 177:12-23. [PMID: 29592862 PMCID: PMC5933140 DOI: 10.1104/pp.17.01634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2018] [Accepted: 03/19/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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T6P can be targeted through genetic and chemical methods for crop yield improvements in different environments through the effect of T6P on carbon allocation and biosynthetic pathways.
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- Matthew J Paul
- Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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- Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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- Plant Science, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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Rajpar MH, McDermott B, Kung L, Eardley R, Knowles L, Heeran M, Thornton DJ, Wilson R, Bateman JF, Poulsom R, Arvan P, Kadler KE, Briggs MD, Boot-Handford RP. Targeted induction of endoplasmic reticulum stress induces cartilage pathology. PLoS Genet 2009; 5:e1000691. [PMID: 19834559 PMCID: PMC2757901 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 107] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2009] [Accepted: 09/17/2009] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Pathologies caused by mutations in extracellular matrix proteins are generally considered to result from the synthesis of extracellular matrices that are defective. Mutations in type X collagen cause metaphyseal chondrodysplasia type Schmid (MCDS), a disorder characterised by dwarfism and an expanded growth plate hypertrophic zone. We generated a knock-in mouse model of an MCDS–causing mutation (COL10A1 p.Asn617Lys) to investigate pathogenic mechanisms linking genotype and phenotype. Mice expressing the collagen X mutation had shortened limbs and an expanded hypertrophic zone. Chondrocytes in the hypertrophic zone exhibited endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and a robust unfolded protein response (UPR) due to intracellular retention of mutant protein. Hypertrophic chondrocyte differentiation and osteoclast recruitment were significantly reduced indicating that the hypertrophic zone was expanded due to a decreased rate of VEGF–mediated vascular invasion of the growth plate. To test directly the role of ER stress and UPR in generating the MCDS phenotype, we produced transgenic mouse lines that used the collagen X promoter to drive expression of an ER stress–inducing protein (the cog mutant of thyroglobulin) in hypertrophic chondrocytes. The hypertrophic chondrocytes in this mouse exhibited ER stress with a characteristic UPR response. In addition, the hypertrophic zone was expanded, gene expression patterns were disrupted, osteoclast recruitment to the vascular invasion front was reduced, and long bone growth decreased. Our data demonstrate that triggering ER stress per se in hypertrophic chondrocytes is sufficient to induce the essential features of the cartilage pathology associated with MCDS and confirm that ER stress is a central pathogenic factor in the disease mechanism. These findings support the contention that ER stress may play a direct role in the pathogenesis of many connective tissue disorders associated with the expression of mutant extracellular matrix proteins. Mutations in genes for extracellular matrix proteins are generally thought to exert their pathogenic effects because of resulting defects in extracellular matrix. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that such mutations can also have significant effects inside the cell due to the induction of ER stress. Mutations in type X collagen cause a dwarfism called metaphyseal chondrodysplasia type Schmid. A gene targeted mouse model expressing mutant type X collagen exhibited an expanded hypertrophic zone of the growth plate and significant increases in cellular ER stress, as noted previously. VEGF expression was disrupted leading to decreases in the rate of vascular invasion. To directly assess the role of elevated ER stress in disease pathogenesis, transgenic mouse lines expressing an exogenous, ER stress–inducing protein (cog mutant of thyroglobulin—Tgcog) targeted to hypertrophic chondrocytes were generated. Mice expressing Tgcog protein showed elevated ER stress, an expanded hypertrophic zone, and reduced bone growth demonstrating that elevated ER stress and the resultant UPR is the principal pathogenic mechanism causing this cartilage pathology. It is possible that therapeutic strategies aimed at alleviating ER stress may be beneficial in this and other connective tissue diseases caused by mutant extracellular matrix genes.
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- M. Helen Rajpar
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Musculoskeletal Disorders Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Musculoskeletal Disorders Theme, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Histopathology Unit, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, London, United Kingdom
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- Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology, and Diabetes, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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- Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
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Rakheja D, Boriack RL. Precholesterol sterols accumulate in lipid rafts of patients with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata. Pediatr Dev Pathol 2008; 11:128-32. [PMID: 17378665 DOI: 10.2350/06-10-0179.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [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: 10/28/2006] [Accepted: 02/19/2007] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Systemic fetal dysmorphogenesis in disorders of postsqualene cholesterol biosynthesis is thought to be caused by disruption of Hedgehog signaling. Because precholesterol sterols such as 7-dehydrocholesterol and lathosterol can replace cholesterol in the activation of Hedgehog proteins, it is currently believed that cholesterol deficiency-related Hedgehog signaling block occurs further downstream, probably at the level of Smoothened. Experimentally, such a block in Hedgehog signaling occurs at sterol levels of <40 mug/mg protein. Recently, we studied autopsy material from 2 infants with fatal cholesterol biosynthetic disorders (Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata) in which the hepatic cholesterol levels were far greater. In this study, we demonstrate abnormal accumulation of sterol precursors of cholesterol in membrane lipid rafts (detergent resistance membranes) prepared from liver tissues of these 2 infants: 8-dehydrocholesterol and 7-dehydrocholesterol in lipid rafts of the infant with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome and cholest-8(9)-ene-3beta-ol in lipid rafts of the infant with X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata. We suggest that such alterations in the lipid raft sterol environment may affect the biology of cells and the development of fetuses with cholesterol biosynthetic disorders.
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- Dinesh Rakheja
- Department of Pathology, Children's Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
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Martanová H, Krepelová A, Baxová A, Hansíková H, Cánský Z, Kvapil M, Gregor V, Magner M, Zeman J. X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX2): multisystemic impact of the defect in cholesterol biosynthesis. Prague Med Rep 2007; 108:263-269. [PMID: 18399064] [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: 05/26/2023] Open
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Chondrodysplasia punctata represents clinically and genetically a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by the presence of multiple congenital anomalies and stippled epiphyses. We present clinical course of the disease and the results of metabolic, X-ray and molecular analyses in 19-months old girl with X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata with intrauterine growth retardation, craniofacial dysmorphy, cataracts, cutaneous anomalies including ichthyosis, asymmetric rhizomesomelic shortness of the limbs, deformity of the spine, club foot, polydactyly, syndactyly, epiphyseal stippling and low cholesterol (2.29 mmol/l). Spectrophotometric analysis revealed the presence of abnormal pattern of cholesterol precursors in blood. The increased level of 8-dehydrocholesterol (42.2 micromol/l, controls < 1) and 7-dehydrocholesterol (25.5 micromol/l, controls < 1) recognised with GC/MS suggested an endogenous defect of cholesterol biosynthesis. The diagnosis of X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX2) was confirmed by the molecular analysis. Sequencing of the EBP gene encoding for 3beta-hydroxysteroid-delta8,delta7-isomerase revealed the presence of "de novo" heterozygous mutation c.327C>T (p.Arg110Stop). High cholesterol diet normalized cholesterol level (3.28 mmol/l) but it had no influence on the unfavourable prognosis of the disease. Low level of cholesterol with abnormal sterol profile in a child with congenital development anomalies represent an important laboratory marker suggesting an inherited defect of cholesterol biosynthesis.
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- H Martanová
- Department of Neonatology, Thomayer's Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
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Cholesterol is known to be a significant constituent of the central nervous system. It also plays an important role in developmental pathways to form the human brain, such as the Sonic Hedgehog pathway. Disturbances in the formation of cholesterol may therefore be expected to cause brain malformations and brain dysfunctions. Here a short review of the consequences of defects of the distal cholesterol pathways to brain formation and functioning is provided.
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- R C M Hennekam
- Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Conradi-Hunermann syndrome (CDPX2) is X-linked dominant disorder appeared with aberrant punctuate calcification. The skeletal cells derived from the marrow stroma are active in maintaining the skeletal formation. We obtained mesenchymal stem cells from a patient with CDPX2 and studied the formation of colony forming unit-fibroblast (CFU-F) in vitro in comparison cells obtained from normal donors. Cultured cells were studied morphologically and subjected to gene expression analysis. Marrow stromal cells (MSC)-chondrodysplasia punctuate (CDP) cells from CDPX2 were identified by their mosaic morphology formed three phenotypically distinct types of CFU-F colonies. One type consisted of normal fibroblasts with developed cell body and cellular processes; the second type contained pathological small cells without processes; and the third type comprised of mixed cells. We compared gene expression by the MSC-CDP to cells from normal donors. Transcription factors analyzed proliferation potential were similar in both normal and mixed colonies of MSC-CDP and similar to normal MSCs. The message expression for cytokines and extra cellular matrix (ECM) proteins revealed similar expression for biglycan, osteocalcin, and osteonectin, while IL-6, IL-11, and M-CSF mRNA levels were significantly higher in normal cells than in MSC-CDP. Mixed cells had elevated levels for IL-6 and M-CSF mRNA, but expressed IL-11 at the normal range. The studied genes were expressed at lower levels by the pathological (MSC-CDP) cells compared to normal ones. Hence, MSC-CDP was demonstrated to display abnormal morphology and transcription of several investigated genes. This study further illuminates the basis of the mosaic pattern of mesenchymal cells derived from a patient affected with CDPX2, and their gene expression involvement.
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- Irena Shur
- Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 66978, Israel
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Has C, Seedorf U, Kannenberg F, Bruckner-Tuderman L, Folkers E, Fölster-Holst R, Baric I, Traupe H. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and molecular genetic studies in families with the Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome. J Invest Dermatol 2002; 118:851-8. [PMID: 11982764 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1747.2002.01761.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [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: 11/20/2022]
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The Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome is an X-linked dominant disease that is due to mutations in the gene for emopamil binding protein. Emopamil binding protein is a Delta8-Delta7 sterol isomerase and plays a pivotal role in the final steps of cholesterol biosynthesis. We wanted to know to what extent this X-linked dominant enzyme defect has functional consequences at the biochemical level and whether it is possible to predict the clinical phenotype from serum sterol measurements. Therefore we performed sterol biochemical studies in 11 Conradi-Hünermann-Happle syndrome families and compared the results obtained to the clinical and molecular genetic findings. To assess disease severity a score considering bone and skin involvement and further features was used. For evaluation of the functional consequences we studied serum samples using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis. For mutation screening we analyzed the emopamil binding protein gene using polymerase chain reaction, heteroduplex analysis of all exons, direct sequencing, and restriction enzyme analysis. Mutations in the emopamil binding protein gene were found in all 11 families including seven novel mutations affecting exons 2, 4, and 5. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis revealed markedly elevated levels of 8-dehydrocholesterol and of cholest-8(9)-en-3beta-ol and helped to identify somatic mosaicism in a clinically unaffected man. The extent of the metabolic alterations in the serum, however, do not allow prediction of the clinical phenotype, nor the genotype. This lack of correlation may be due to differences in X-inactivation between different tissues of the same patient and/or loss of the mutant clone by outgrowth of proficient clones after some time.
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- Cristina Has
- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Muenster, Germany.
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Andersson HC. Disorders of post-squalene cholesterol biosynthesis leading to human dysmorphogenesis. Cell Mol Biol (Noisy-le-grand) 2002; 48:173-7. [PMID: 11990452] [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: 02/24/2023]
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Insights in molecular developmental biology in animals and humans are facilitating the understanding of pathophysiologic mechanisms in dysmorphogenesis or abnormalities in normal embryologic structural development. A milestone was recognition of the role of shh in morphogenesis of craniofacial structures, especially the development of holoprosencephaly. The dependence of hedgehog morphogens on cholesterol modification for normal hedgehog signaling function has particular relevance to disorders of cholesterol synthesis which manifest dysmorphogenesis. Four human disorders of morphogenesis (Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome, desmosterolosis, X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata, CHILD syndrome) have recently been shown to be caused by sterol abnormalities resulting from cholesterol biosynthesis enzyme deficiencies. This review summarizes the clinical, biochemical and molecular data in these disorders with an emphasis on understanding the pathophysiology of dysmorphogenesis.
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- Hans C Andersson
- Hayward Genetics Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
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Seo KW, Kelley RI, Okano S, Watanabe T. Mouse Tdho abnormality results from double point mutations of the emopamil binding protein gene (Ebp). Mamm Genome 2001; 12:602-5. [PMID: 11471053 DOI: 10.1007/s00335-001-3010-1] [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] [Received: 01/09/2001] [Accepted: 04/01/2001] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Mouse Tdho (Tattered-Hokkaido) was described as being allelic with Td in our previous study. Both allelic genes, which are located at the same position on the centromere of the X Chromosome (Chr), generate similar phenotypes such as male embryonic lethality, and in heterozygous females, hyperkeratotic skin, skeletal abnormalities, and growth retardation. The emopamil binding protein gene (Ebp) emerged as a candidate for mouse Tdho mutation, since the Td gene was recently determined to result from a point mutation of Ebp. In this study, Ebp cDNA of Tdho was demonstrated to possess double point mutations that cause two amino acid changes from Leu to Pro at position 132 and from Ser to Cys at 133 in EBP protein. EBP participates in cholesterol biosynthesis, and cholest-8(9)-en-3beta-ol was found to be increased in the plasma of Tdho adult females but not in that of normal mice. From these results, a loss of function was expected for the EBP protein encoded by Tdho. Both the phenotypes and genes responsible for Tdho as well as Td are quite similar to those of human X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX2).
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- K W Seo
- Department of Experimental Animal Science, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0818, Japan
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Fluorescent peptides form a new generation of analytical tools for visualizing intracellular processes and molecular interactions at the level of single cells. The peptide-based reporters combine the sensitivity of fluorescence detection with the information specificity of amino acid sequences. Recently we have succeeded in targeting a fluorescent heptapeptide (acetyl-CKGGAKL) carrying a peroxisomal targeting signal (PTS1) to peroxisomes in intact cells. The fluorophores conjugated to the PTS1-peptide were fluorescein, BODIPY and the pH-sensitive SNAFL-2. When added to cells, these fluorescent peptides were internalized at 37 degrees C and typically visible in the cell after 15 min or less. Cells lacking an active peroxisomal protein import system, as in the case of Zellweger syndrome, were stained diffusely throughout the cell. Uptake of the peptide probes was not inhibited at 4 degrees C or when the cells were depleted of ATP. Under these conditions translocation to peroxisomes was blocked. This indicates that the uptake by cells is diffusion-driven and not an active process. Using the SNAFL-2-PTS1 peptide, we established by ratio-imaging that peroxisomes of human fibroblasts have an internal pH of 8.2. The concurrent pH gradient over the peroxisomal membrane was dissipated when an ionophore (CCCP) was added. In fibroblasts of chondrodysplasia punctata patients with defects in the peroxisomal import of proteins carrying a PTS2 sequence, import of the PTS1-peptide probe into peroxisomes appeared normal, but these peroxisomes have a pH of 6.8 equal to that of the cytosol. Coupling different fluorophores to the PTS1-peptide offers the possibility of determining in time and space as to how peroxisomes function in living cells.
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- T B Dansen
- Institute of Biomembranes, Centre for Biomembranes and Lipid Enzymology, Department of Biochemistry of Lipids, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
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The X-linked dominant male-lethal mouse mutations tattered and bare patches are homologous to human X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata and CHILD syndrome, rare human skeletal dysplasias. These disorders also affect the skin and can cause cataracts and microphthalmia in surviving, affected heterozygous females. They have recently been shown to result from mutations in genes encoding enzymes involved in sequential steps in the conversion of lanosterol to cholesterol. This review will summarize clinical features of the disorders and describe recent biochemical and molecular investigations that have resulted in the elucidation of the involved genes and their metabolic pathway. Finally, speculations about possible mechanisms of pathogenesis will be provided.
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- G E Herman
- Children's Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics, Ohio State University, 700 Children's Dr. Rm. W403, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
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We present a 6-week-old black girl with Conradi-Hunerman-Happle syndrome (CHS). The mother had no past medical history of illness, and the pregnancy progressed normally to a spontaneous vaginal delivery at 36 weeks. There was no known significant family history. A diagnosis of chondrodysplasia punctata was made at birth from physical examination and X-ray findings. On physical examination at 6 weeks, a koala face, a saddle nose, and a right-sided cataract were noted (Fig. 1a,b). There was unilateral left-sided ichthyosis well demarcated at the midline, with whorled brown fine scale following Blashko's lines on the patient's right side. Orthopedic complications were bilateral but were more pronounced on the left side. There was bilateral shortening of the humerus, with polydactyly of the right hand, arachnodactyly of the left fingers, bilateral clubbing, and mild contractures of the feet. X-Rays showed multiple calcifications along the spine, proximal and distal femoral epiphysis, and proximal humeral epiphysis (Fig. 2). The patient was treated with emollients (aquaphor) twice daily with continuing improvement in ichthyosis. The clubbed feet were treated with splinting and the polydactyly was corrected by surgery. Ophthalmology was to follow the patient for her right-sided cataract. At the patient's 4-month follow-up, the ichthyosis showed a marked improvement with some residual hypo- pigmented atrophoderma noted. The distribution remained unchanged. Biopsies taken of ichthyotic lesions showed compact hyperkeratosis and follicular plugging. Vesicles within the stratum corneum contained amorphous material (Fig. 3a,b). The granular cell layer was thickened with retained oval nuclei. The epidermal and adnexal epithelium were disorganized. Increased apoptotic/dyskeratotic keratinocytes were seen within the epidermis, but were most evident within the follicular epithelium. Ultrastructural studies showed saccular dilations of the acellular space within the stratum corneum. These acellular spaces were filled with unprocessed lamellated pleated sheets and vesicle complexes and processed lamellae. Dyskeratotic cells were seen within the stratum spinosum. Red blood cell (RBC) plasmalogen levels and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), including decosahexaenoic acid (DHA), were within normal limits. Plasma very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA), including C26 : 0/C22 : 0 ratios, phytanic and pristanic acids, plasmalogen, and phytanic/pristanic ratios, trihydroxycholestanic acid (THCA) and dihydroxycholestanoic acid (DHCA) including their ratios, THCA/cholic acid and DHCA/chenodeoxycholic acid, and PUFAs including DHA were within normal limits. Urine organic acids and piecolic acid were within normal limits. Despite these normal values, there was an increase in cholest-8(9)-en-3beta-ol of 6.8 microg/mL (normal, 0.01-0.10 microg/mL) and an increase in 8-dehydrocholesterol (5.1 microg/mL) (normal, <0.10 microg/mL).
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- E A DiPreta
- Departments of Dermatology and Pathology, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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In humans and mice, four different genetic defects in the nine biosynthetic steps from lanosterol to cholesterol have been identified. They impair the activity of a putative C3-sterol dehydrogenase (Nshdl, X-linked dominant bare patches/striated mutation in mice), the sterol delta 8-delta 7 isomerase/EBP (Ebp, X-linked dominant tattered mutation in mice; chondrodysplasia punctata (CDPX2) in humans), the delta 24-sterol reductase (autosomal recessive desmosterolosis) and the delta 7-sterol reductase (DHCR7 gene, autosomal recessive Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome in humans). These inborn errors in postsqualene cholesterol metabolism result in dysmorphogenetic syndromes of variable severity. The X-linked dominant mutations result in mosaicism in females, as a result of X-inactivation, and midgestational lethality in males. The mechanisms by which the depletion of cholesterol or the accumulation of intermediates impair morphogenetic programs are unclear. So far, no cellular processes that require an intact cholesterol biosynthetic pathway have been identified, although the morphogenetic hedgehog-patched signaling cascade is a candidate.
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- F F Moebius
- Institute of Biochemical Pharmacology, Peter-Mayr-Str. 1, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Kelley RI. Inborn errors of cholesterol biosynthesis. Adv Pediatr 2000; 47:1-53. [PMID: 10959439] [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: 02/17/2023]
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Disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis have recently emerged as important errors of metabolism that collectively have taught us many new genetic and biochemical lessons. Whereas most metabolic diseases are characterized by exclusively or largely postnatal biochemical toxicities or deficiencies, disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis are notable for their severe effects on prenatal development. The remarkable embryonic consequences of abnormal cholesterol biosynthesis are exemplified by Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS), a well-known multiple congenital anomaly syndrome only recently discovered to be caused by a deficiency in the last step in cholesterol biosynthesis. Equally surprising has been the discovery that primary defects of cholesterol biosynthesis cause several different forms of congenital skeletal dysplasia, most notably X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata, or Conradi-Hünermann syndrome. Yet another sterol disorder, desmosterolosis, caused by defective activity of desmosterol reductase, combines a severe osteosclerotic skeletal dysplasia with multiple embryonic malformations similar to those of SLOS. The discovery of the biochemical basis of these diverse genetic disorders has provided not only accurate biochemical methods for their diagnosis and prenatal diagnosis, but also new insights into the biochemistry of vertebrate embryonic development. Among the lessons we have learned from the study of inborn errors of cholesterol biosynthesis, one of the most important is that the abnormal cholesterol metabolism of SLOS impairs the function of "Sonic hedgehog" and other related embryonic "signaling proteins" that help determine the vertebrate body plan during the earliest weeks of embryonic development. Most significant clinically has been the realization that many of the postnatal clinical problems of patients with SLOS are direct consequences of the inability to synthesize the large amounts of cholesterol needed for growth and for the synthesis of compounds derived from cholesterol, such as steroid hormones. In addition to the important finding that supplementary cholesterol eliminates or ameliorates many of the feeding and growth problems of SLOS, the discovery that the autistic behaviors of children with SLOS can be reduced or even eliminated by treatment with supplementary dietary cholesterol has been one of the most startling. Moreover, clinical and basic research on prenatal cholesterol nutrition in SLOS and various animal model systems has delineated a previously unrecognized system for the delivery of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol from the mother to the developing embryo. The many discoveries engendered by these experiments of nature argue that there are heretofore unrecognized beneficial effects of cholesterol, especially in children, and that we should consider very carefully possible adverse effects that the popular war against cholesterol may have on the prenatal and postnatal development of children.
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- R I Kelley
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., USA
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X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata is characterised by resolving irregular punctate calcifications of epiphyses, variable ichthyosis and atrophoderma, short stature, and cataracts. We report on a patient with this syndrome who had transiently abnormal peroxisomal function tests. We review the literature and propose that X-linked dominant chondrodysplasia punctata is a peroxisomal disorder and that its phenotype can be explained by X chromosome lyonisation and the relative proliferation of cells expressing the normal X allele.
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- C J Wilson
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Starship Children's Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand
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Slawecki ML, Dodt G, Steinberg S, Moser AB, Moser HW, Gould SJ. Identification of three distinct peroxisomal protein import defects in patients with peroxisome biogenesis disorders. J Cell Sci 1995; 108 ( Pt 5):1817-29. [PMID: 7544797 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.108.5.1817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [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: 11/20/2022] Open
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Zellweger syndrome, neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy, infantile Refsum's disease, and classical rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata are lethal genetic disorders caused by defects in peroxisome biogenesis. We report here a characterization of the peroxisomal matrix protein import capabilities of fibroblasts from 62 of these peroxisome biogenesis disorder patients representing all ten known complementation groups. Using an immunofluorescence microscopy assay, we identified three distinct peroxisomal protein import defects among these patients. Type-1 cells have a specific inability to import proteins containing the PTS1 peroxisomal targeting signal, type-2 cells have a specific defect in import of proteins containing the PTS2 signal, and type-3 cells exhibit a loss of, or reduction in, the import of both PTS1 and PTS2 proteins. Considering that the common cellular phenotype of Zellweger syndrome, neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy and infantile Refsum's disease has been proposed to be a complete defect in peroxisomal matrix protein import, the observation that 85% (40/47) of the type-3 cell lines imported a low but detectable amount of both PTS1 and PTS2 proteins was surprising. Furthermore, different cell lines with the type-3 defect exhibited a broad spectrum of different phenotypes; some showed a complete absence of matrix protein import while others contained 50–100 matrix protein-containing peroxisomes per cell. We also noted certain relationships between the import phenotypes and clinical diagnoses: both type-1 cell lines were from neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy patients, all 13 type-2 cell lines were from classical rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata patients, and the type-3 import defect was found in the vast majority of Zellweger syndrome (22/22), neonatal adrenoleukodytrophy (17/19), and infantile Refsum's disease (7/7) patients. Our finding that all type-1 cell lines were from the second complementation group (CG2), all 13 type-2 cell lines were from CG11, and that cells from the eight remaining complementation groups only exhibit the type-3 defect indicates that mutations in particular genes give rise to the different types of peroxisomal protein import defects. This hypothesis is further supported by correlations between certain complementation groups and particular type-3 subphenotypes: all patient cell lines belonging to CG3 and CG10 showed a complete absence of peroxisomal matrix protein import while those from CG6, CG7, and CG8 imported some peroxisomal matrix proteins. However, the fact that cell lines from within particular complementation groups (CG1, CG4) could have different matrix protein import characteristics suggests that allelic heterogeneity also plays an important role in generating different import phenotypes in certain patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- M L Slawecki
- Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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A new radiolabeled metabolite was released into the extracellular fluid by normal human skin fibroblasts that were labeled with [5,6,8,9,11,12,14,15-3H] arachidonic acid. This product continued to accumulate during a 24 h incubation, and its formation was not saturated at arachidonic acid concentrations up to 15 mumol/L. The compound, identified as hexadecatrienoic acid, was not produced by Zellweger fibroblasts which are deficient in peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidation. By contrast, radiolabeled hexadecatrienoic acid was produced by mutant fibroblasts having other peroxisomal defects, including X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, adult Refsum's disease, and rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. This radiolabeled metabolite also was produced by mutant fibroblasts that cannot oxidize long-chain fatty acids in the mitochondria. These results indicate that hexadecatrienoic acid is synthesized from arachidonic acid by peroxisomal beta-oxidation. The absence of this pathway may account for some of the biochemical and functional abnormalities that occur in Zellweger's syndrome.
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- J A Gordon
- Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
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As peroxisomes possess some of the integral enzymes for cholesterol biosynthesis, the role of these organelles in cholesterol formation was studied in dermal fibroblasts with three types of peroxisomal defect: group I, characterized by the absence of intact peroxisomes (neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy, cerebrohepatorenal syndrome of Zellweger); group II, showing impaired activity of a single peroxisomal enzyme (X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, adrenomyeloneuropathy); and group III, defective in more than one peroxisomal enzyme (rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata). Cells were incubated with three different radioactive precursors, namely [14C]-octanoate, [14C]-acetate, and [3H]-mevalonate, and incorporation of these radiolabels into cholesterol was determined. All fibroblasts with peroxisomal defects were able to form cholesterol at concentrations comparable or higher than those in controls dependent on the radioactive substrate. Binding properties (KD) and bmax values) of LDL to fibroblasts with peroxisomal defects and downregulation of intracellular cholesterol biosynthesis were similar to those found in fibroblasts from normolipidaemic controls, but different to those observed in LDL-receptor negative fibroblasts. As our studies revealed that cholesterol biosynthesis is not impaired in fibroblasts from patients with metabolic disorders of peroxisomal origin, we conclude that peroxisomes play little or no role in the pathway of cholesterol synthesis beyond mevalonate. In earlier steps of the cholesterol synthesis pathway, peroxisomal and mitochondrial defects in parallel may alter cholesterol synthesis indirectly.
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- E Malle
- Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria
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We report a 7-year-old patient with chondrodysplasia punctata but without rhizomelia. He was born with typical clinical and radiological symptoms of this disease. He developed slowly with considerable psychomotor retardation but improved later, gaining some speech and psychosocial contacts. Joint contractures and bilateral cataracts are still major problems. De novo plasmalogen synthesis in fibroblasts was greatly reduced and DHAP-AT activity was at the lower limit of controls. Peroxisomal thiolase was present in its precursor form only. Membrane fluidity (measured by TMA-DPH fluorescence anisotropy) was increased in erythrocyte ghosts and in lymphocytes. Plasma phytanic acid concentration was elevated 5-fold. The patient represents a mild clinical course of chondrodysplasia punctata, resembling Conradi-Hünermann syndrome, but biochemically he has the typical peroxisomal dysfunction of rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata except for a high residual activity of DHAP-AT.
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- J M Nuoffer
- Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Berne, Switzerland
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Schutgens RB, Bouman IW, Nijenhuis AA, Wanders RJ, Frumau ME. Profiles of very-long-chain fatty acids in plasma, fibroblasts, and blood cells in Zellweger syndrome, X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, and rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. Clin Chem 1993; 39:1632-7. [PMID: 8353949] [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: 01/30/2023]
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Profiles of saturated very-long-chain (> C22) fatty acids were studied in plasma, fibroblasts, erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes of patients affected by peroxisomal disorders such as Zellweger syndrome, X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD), and classic rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) and in controls. In Zellweger patients, the concentration of hexacosanoic acid (C26:0) and the C26:0/C22:0 ratio are greatly increased in plasma and fibroblasts. However, the plasma concentration of docosanoic acid (C22:0) is greatly decreased. Also in platelets, leukocytes, and to a lesser extent erythrocytes, the C26:0 concentrations and both the C26:0/C22:0 and C24:0/C22:0 ratios are greatly increased. The C24:0/C22:0 ratio is significantly increased in plasma, platelets, and leukocytes, but not in erythrocytes. In X-ALD, the C26:0 concentration and the C26:0/C22:0 and C24:0/C22:0 ratios are significantly increased in plasma, fibroblasts, platelets, and leukocytes, but the erythrocytes show substantial overlap in the 5-90% ranges between controls and patients. In RCDP, slightly increased C26:0 and C26:0/C22:0 ratios are found in erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes, but not in plasma and fibroblasts. We conclude that plasma and fibroblasts are the specimens of choice for biochemical diagnosis of Zellweger syndrome and X-ALD, respectively. The slight increase in C26:0 in blood cells of RCDP patients suggests a decreased flux of very-long-chain fatty acids through the peroxisomal beta-oxidation pathway in liver in this genetic disorder.
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- R B Schutgens
- University Hospital of Amsterdam, Department of Pediatrics, The Netherlands
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Rizzo WB, Craft DA, Judd LL, Moser HW, Moser AB. Fatty alcohol accumulation in the autosomal recessive form of rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. Biochem Med Metab Biol 1993; 50:93-102. [PMID: 8373640 DOI: 10.1006/bmmb.1993.1050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Patients with the autosomal recessive form of rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (AR-RCDP) and other generalized peroxisomal disorders are deficient in the incorporation of fatty alcohol into plasmalogen lipids. To determine whether these patients accumulated fatty alcohol, we measured their plasma fatty alcohol concentrations. Plasma octadecanol levels were elevated in six patients with AR-RCDP but tended to be normal in other generalized peroxisomal disorders such as neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy and Zellweger syndrome. Cultured skin fibroblasts from AR-RCDP patients accumulated six-fold more hexadecanol than normal when cells were incubated in the presence of palmitate but had normal hexadecanol content when palmitate was not present in the culture medium. These cells were profoundly deficient in the incorporation of hexadecanol into ether lipids but oxidized hexadecanol to fatty acid normally. AR-RCDP fibroblasts also showed a two- to seven-fold increase in the rate of hexadecanol synthesis, which was associated with an increase in the activity of acyl-CoA reductase. We conclude that patients with AR-RCDP accumulate fatty alcohol due to its impaired incorporation into ether lipids and a greatly increased rate of fatty alcohol synthesis.
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- W B Rizzo
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298
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The peroxisomal disorders represent a group of inherited metabolic disorders that derive from defects of peroxisomal biogenesis and/or from dysfunction of single or multiple peroxisomal enzymes. Because peroxisomes are involved in the metabolism of lipids critical to the functioning of the nervous system, many of the peroxisomal disorders manifest with significant degrees of progressive psychomotor dysfunction. These disorders should be considered in the differential diagnosis of the infant with hypotonia and psychomotor delay (especially if accompanied by facial dysmorphisms, hepatomegaly, cataracts and/or retinitis, calcific stippling, short limbs, or combinations of these features), in the school-aged child with progressive neurologic dysfunction, and in adults with slowly progressive motor dysfunction. Current knowledge of peroxisomal biochemical and enzymatic processes permits precise identification of particular disorders within the peroxisomal disorder grouping. An effort should be made to identify the specific peroxisomal disorder to provide a precise explanation for neurodevelopmental deficits, to potentially prevent recurrence through genetic counseling, and to provide appropriate therapies when available.
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- F R Brown
- Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston 77030
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Singh I, Pahan K, Dhaunsi GS, Lazo O, Ozand P. Phytanic acid alpha-oxidation. Differential subcellular localization in rat and human tissues and its inhibition by nycodenz. J Biol Chem 1993; 268:9972-9. [PMID: 8486724] [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] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The subcellular site of oxidation of [1-14C]phytanic acid to pristanic acid and CO2 was examined by measurement of the release of 14CO2 in different organelles from human and rat tissues prepared by isopycnic density gradient centrifugation in Nycodenz. The activity of phytanic acid oxidation in human tissues (liver and cultured skin fibroblasts) paralleled that of the peroxisomal marker catalase. We also observed that Nycodenz (commonly used gradient material for isolation of subcellular organelles) has a strong inhibitory effect on the alpha-oxidation of phytanic acid. This inhibition is reversible and can be decreased or eliminated by dialysis of isolated organelles against isotonic solution. The dialysis of endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondrial, and peroxisomal fractions from human liver and cultured skin fibroblasts for 2 h against isotonic solution increased the specific activity of phytanic acid oxidation by 1.3-, 1.3-, and 5-21-fold, respectively, after removal of Nycodenz as compared with nondialyzed samples. After dialysis, the rate of oxidation of phytanic acid in peroxisomes from human liver and cultured skin fibroblasts was 4-26 times higher than that in mitochondria and 43-130 times than that in the endoplasmic reticulum, suggesting that, in human tissues, phytanic acid is oxidized to pristanic acid in peroxisomes. On the other hand, the oxidation of phytanic acid in rat liver paralleled the distribution of the mitochondrial marker cytochrome-c oxidase. The 18-fold higher rate of oxidation in dialyzed mitochondria (198.6 +/- 4.20 pmol/h/mg of protein) than in peroxisomes (11.0 +/- 0.5 pmol/h/mg of protein) demonstrates that, in rodents, phytanic acid is oxidized in mitochondria. 2-[5-(4-Chlorophenyl)pentyl]oxiran-2-carboxylic acid, an inhibitor of carnitine palmitoyltransferase I and mitochondrial fatty acid oxidation, inhibits the oxidation of phytanic acid in rat tissues (liver and cultured skin fibroblasts), whereas it has no effect on the oxidation of phytanic acid in human tissues (liver and cultured skin fibroblasts). The higher specific activity of phytanic acid oxidation in peroxisomes compared with that in mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum from human tissues and the inhibition of phytanic acid oxidation by 2-[5-(4-chlorophenyl)pentyl]oxiran-2-carboxylic acid in rat tissues (but not human tissues) demonstrate clearly that, in human tissues, phytanic acid is predominantly oxidized in peroxisomes.
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- I Singh
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425
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Van der Veer E, Van der Weide D, Heijmans HS, Hoekstra D. Translocation of fluorescent ether phospholipid, but not its diacyl counterpart, after insertion in plasma membranes of control and plasmalogen-deficient fibroblasts. Biochim Biophys Acta 1993; 1146:294-300. [PMID: 8452863 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(93)90368-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Fluorescently labelled ether phospholipid (1-O-alkyl/alkenyl-2-acyl- glycerophosphocholine) readily internalizes at low temperatures (2 degrees C) after insertion into the plasma membrane of cultured fibroblasts. This fate differs markedly from that of its diacyl phospholipid analogue, which remains associated with the plasma membrane under similar conditions. Analysis by thin-layer chromatography reveals that the translocation involves transfer of the intact ether phosphatidylcholine molecules. Relative to control cells, a 2-fold increase of ether phosphatidylcholine uptake was noted when plasmalogen deficient fibroblasts were used. Back-exchange experiments demonstrate that more than 60% of the cell-associated ether lipid is translocated within the cells, irrespective of the cell strain that was used. The potential mechanism by which the translocation process is accomplished is discussed.
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- E Van der Veer
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
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ten Brink HJ, Schor DS, Kok RM, Stellaard F, Kneer J, Poll-The BT, Saudubray JM, Jakobs C. In vivo study of phytanic acid alpha-oxidation in classic Refsum's disease and chondrodysplasia punctata. Pediatr Res 1992; 32:566-70. [PMID: 1282700 DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199211000-00016] [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] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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A series of in vivo experiments is described in which [1-13C]phytanic acid was given as an oral substrate to a healthy subject and two patients showing an impairment in phytanic acid degradation, one with Refsum's disease and one with chondrodysplasia punctata. After intake of the substrate by the control in a dose of 20 mg/kg body weight, the production of 13CO2 was measured in exhaled breath air and the concomitant formation of labeled 2-hydroxyphytanic acid and of pristanic acid was demonstrated by plasma analysis. After application of a substrate dose of 1 mg/kg body weight to the control, no substantial amounts of 13CO2 were measured, whereas time-dependent analysis of labeled 2-hydroxyphytanic acid in plasma yielded a concentration curve superimposed upon the baseline value (0.2 mumol/L) of the unlabeled substance. Phytanic acid accumulated in plasma from the Refsum's disease patient [649 mumol/L, controls > 1 y (n = 100): < 10 mumol/L], whereas the pristanic acid concentration was within the control range [1.4 mumol/L, controls > 1 y (n = 100): < 3 mumol/L]. Low amounts of 2-hydroxyphytanic acid were found normally present [0.04 mumol/L, controls > 1 y (n = 11): < 0.2 mumol/L], and formation of labeled 2-hydroxyphytanic acid could not be demonstrated after ingestion of [1-13C]phytanic acid in a dose of 1 mg/kg body weight. In addition to phytanic acid accumulation (232 mumol/L), the chondrodysplasia punctata patient showed an elevated 2-hydroxyphytanic acid plasma concentration (0.4 mumol/L), whereas the plasma pristanic acid level was in the control range (0.7 mumol/L).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- H J ten Brink
- Department of Pediatrics, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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The polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) composition of the brain was studied in 8 patients with Zellweger's syndrome (ZS), 3 with neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (NALD), one with bifunctional enzyme deficiency (BED), one with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD), and one with adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN). The PUFA composition of the liver, kidney and retina was studied in 8, 6 and 1 patients with ZS, respectively. An infant with NALD and a child with rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) were also studied for the PUFA composition of the liver. The liver and kidney of the patient with X-ALD and the liver of the patient with AMN were included in the study. The fatty acid values in the peroxisomal patients were compared with control data obtained in the normal developing brain (38 cases), liver (9 cases), kidney (7 cases) and retina (16 cases). The brain of a patient with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD) and the liver of a child with Krabbe's disease (KD) were also studied for comparison. The most constant and severe abnormality in all the peroxisomal patients was a drastic decrease in the total amount of docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 omega 3), especially in the brain. The other product of delta 4-desaturation, 22:5 omega 6, was generally decreased in the brain, liver and kidney of the ZS patients, but very much increased in the brain of two patients with NALD. The 22:6 omega 3/22:4 omega 6 ratio, which remains quite constant throughout normal brain development, was consistently decreased in the peroxisomal brain, in ZS as well as in NALD. This study confirms that, in classical Zellweger's syndrome, the two products of delta 4-desaturation are affected. In contrast, in neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy the deficiency is probably restricted to the omega 3 product of delta 4-desaturation, docosahexaenoic acid, especially in the brain, while the other product, 22:5 omega 6, is either normal or increased, perhaps in an attempt to compensate for the 22:6 omega 3 deficiency in brain membranes.
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- M Martinez
- Biomedical Research Unit, Maternity-Children Hospital, Ciudad Sanitaria Valle de Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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Heikoop JC, Wanders RJ, Strijland A, Purvis R, Schutgens RB, Tager JM. Genetic and biochemical heterogeneity in patients with the rhizomelic form of chondrodysplasia punctata--a complementation study. Hum Genet 1992; 89:439-44. [PMID: 1618493 DOI: 10.1007/bf00194319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [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: 12/27/2022]
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The genetic relationship between 10 patients with clinical manifestations of rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) was studied by complementation analysis after somatic cell fusion. Biochemically, 9 out of the 10 patients were characterized by a partial deficiency of acyl-CoA: dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyltransferase (DHAP-AT) and an impairment of plasmalogen biosynthesis, phytanate catabolism and the maturation of peroxisomal 3-oxoacyl-CoA thiolase; 3-oxoacyl-CoA thiolase was strongly reduced in the peroxisomes of these patients. Fusion of fibroblasts from these 9 patients with Zellweger fibroblasts resulted in complementation as indicated by the restoration of DHAP-AT activity, plasmalogen biosynthesis, and punctate fluorescence after staining with a monoclonal antibody to peroxisomal thiolase. No complementation was observed after fusion of different combinations of the 9 RCDP cell lines, suggesting that they belong to a single complementation group. The tenth patient was characterized biochemically by a deficiency of DHAP-AT and an impairment of plasmalogen biosynthesis. However, maturation and localization of peroxisomal thiolase were normal. Fusion of fibroblasts from this patient with fibroblasts from the other 9 patients resulted in complementation as indicated by the restoration of plasmalogen biosynthesis. We conclude that mutations in at least two different genes can lead to the clinical phenotype of RCDP.
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- J C Heikoop
- E.C. Slater Institute for Biochemical Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Heikoop JC, Ossendorp BC, Wanders RJ, Wirtz KW, Tager JM. Subcellular localisation and processing of non-specific lipid transfer protein are not aberrant in Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata fibroblasts. FEBS Lett 1992; 299:201-4. [PMID: 1347505 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(92)80247-e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [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: 10/18/2022]
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The import into peroxisomes and maturation of peroxisomal 3-oxoacyl-CoA thiolase are impaired in patients with the Rhizomelic form of Chondrodysplasia Punctata (RCDP). Here we show by means of immunoblotting and subcellular fractionation that non-specific lipid transfer protein (nsLTP), another peroxisomal protein synthesised as a larger precursor, is localised in peroxisomes and is present as the mature protein in RCDP fibroblasts. Thus the component of the import machinery defective in RCDP is not required for the import of nsLTP into peroxisomes.
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- J C Heikoop
- EC Slater Institute for Biochemical Research, University of Amsterdam, Academic Medical Centre, The Netherlands
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To evaluate the importance of peroxisomes in cholesterol metabolism we measured the rate of cholesterol synthesis in cultured skin fibroblasts from 16 patients in whom deficiency of peroxisomes had been established. Seven complementation groups were studied, consisting of one six member group, one three member group, three groups comprising single cases and two groups with two cases each. On the average, cholesterol synthesis was below control values in all the 16 peroxisome-deficient fibroblast cell cultures. The range of cholesterol synthesis in these cells was 2% to 84% of normal values. These data strongly suggest that peroxisomes are essential for normal cholesterol synthesis in human fibroblasts.
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- V J Hodge
- Dept. of Biol., San Diego State University, CA 92182
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The concept that there are human disease states that are associated with abnormal peroxisomal function is of recent origin. This is due in part to the relatively recent discovery of the organelle itself by de Duve in 1983, and to the earlier belief that it was a vestigial structure in mammals. The recognition that the organelle is significant in mammals was ushered in by Paul Lazarow's observation that rat peroxisomes catalyze the beta-oxidation of fatty acids. By 1981, more than 40 enzymes had been localized to the peroxisome, and the number continues to grow. Respect for the physiological role of the peroxisome in man has been heightened by our recent recognition that peroxisome malfunction causes profound disturbances. The Zellweger cerebro-hepato-renal syndrome represents the most serious peroxisomal disease. It is associated with malfunction of virtually every organ, and children with the disease usually do not survive beyond the 4th month. Application of newly developed diagnostic techniques has shown that the clinical spectrum and frequency of peroxisomal disorders are greater than had been realized. Eleven separate peroxisomal disorders have now been identified. Our laboratory alone has identified more than 2000 patients. Disturbances of very long chain fatty acid and ether phospholipid metabolism are present in 9 of the 11 peroxisomal disorders. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of the peroxisomal disorders, with emphasis on disturbances of fatty acid and ether lipid metabolism.
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- H W Moser
- Center for Research on Mental Retardation and Related Aspects of Human Development, Kennedy Institute, Baltimore, MD
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Singh I, Lazo O, Contreras M, Stanley W, Hashimoto T. Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata: biochemical studies of peroxisomes isolated from cultured skin fibroblasts. Arch Biochem Biophys 1991; 286:277-83. [PMID: 1680308 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(91)90041-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Peroxisomes isolated from cultured skin fibroblasts of two patients with rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) and two controls were compared for biochemical studies. These experiments provided the following results: (1) peroxisomes isolated from RCDP-cultured skin fibroblasts had the same density (1.175 g/ml) as control peroxisomes; (2) dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyltransferase activity, the first enzyme in the synthesis of plasmalogens, was deficient (0.5% of control) in RCDP peroxisomes and this activity was not observed in any other region of the gradient; (3) the rate of activation (lignoceroyl-CoA ligase) and oxidation of lignoceric acid was normal in RCDP peroxisomes; and (4) peroxisomes from RCDP contained 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase in the unprocessed form (44-kDa protein), whereas control peroxisomes had both processed (41-kDa protein) and unprocessed forms of 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase. The presence of both processed and unprocessed 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase in control peroxisomes and the unprocessed form in RCDP peroxisomes suggests that processing of 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase takes place in peroxisomes. Although the specific activity and percentage of activity of 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase in RCDP peroxisomes was only 22-26% of control, the normal oxidation of lignoceric acid in RCDP peroxisomes indicates that unprocessed 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase is active. The remaining peroxisomal 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase activity in RCDP was observed in a protein fraction (peroxisome ghosts) lighter than peroxisomes. The normal oxidation of fatty acids in peroxisomes and the absence of such activity in peroxisome ghosts (d = 1.12 g/ml) containing peroxisomal proteins in RCDP suggest that RCDP has only one population of functional peroxisomes (d = 1.175 g/ml).
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- I Singh
- Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425
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1-O-Alkyl and 1-O-alk-1-enyl (plasmalogens) glyceryl ether lipid levels were measured in post-mortem brain and/or liver biopsies from 7 patients with ultrastructural and biochemical evidence of a defect in peroxisomal biogenesis and/or enzymological evidence of a disturbance in ether lipid synthesis. Near normal levels of both species of glyceryl ether lipids were found in neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy and infantile Refsum's disease but marked deficiencies were found in Zellweger's syndrome and rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata, the latter manifesting the most profound reduction in ether lipid levels. These observations suggest that little ether lipid biosynthesis occurs in vivo in rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata or Zellweger's syndrome. However, in some phenotypes with apparently gross reductions in peroxisomal numbers, e.g. neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy and infantile Refsom's disease, there is significant ether lipid synthesis in liver and brain.
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- A Poulos
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, South Australia
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Tiffany CW, Hoefler S, Moser HW, Burch RM. Arachidonic acid metabolism in fibroblasts from patients with peroxisomal diseases: response to interleukin 1. Biochim Biophys Acta 1990; 1096:41-6. [PMID: 2125233 DOI: 10.1016/0925-4439(90)90010-m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Prostaglandin E2 synthesis and eicosanoid biosynthetic enzyme activities (arachidonyl CoA synthetase, cyclooxygenase and phospholipase A2) were measured in dermal fibroblasts from patients with metabolic disorders of peroxisomal origin and compared to those from normal subjects and patients with other metabolic disorders of lipid metabolism. Basal- as well as interleukin 1-stimulated prostaglandin E2 syntheses were higher in fibroblasts from patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy, the Zellweger cerebrohepatorenal syndrome and rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata than in normals. Basal cyclooxygenase and phospholipase A2 activities were elevated in most of the peroxisomal disease cells. Cells from patients with adrenomyeloneuropathy, however, had significantly lower cytokine-stimulated cyclooxygenase and phospholipase A2 activities than normals, as well as lower prostaglandin E2 synthesis in response to interleukin 1. The peroxisomal disease lines exhibited dose-response curves to interleukin 1 similar to controls. Receptor-binding analysis indicated that cells from patients with rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata expressed 5-times fewer interleukin 1 receptors than normals and the other disease lines. Exaggerated arachidonic acid metabolism in response to interleukin 1 suggests that cells from patients with peroxisomal enzyme defects may be useful in elucidating pathways for arachidonate release and eicosanoid synthesis.
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- C W Tiffany
- Nova Pharmaceutical Corporation, Baltimore, MD 21224
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Singh H, Usher S, Johnson D, Poulos A. A comparative study of straight chain and branched chain fatty acid oxidation in skin fibroblasts from patients with peroxisomal disorders. J Lipid Res 1990; 31:217-25. [PMID: 1691260] [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: 12/28/2022] Open
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The beta-oxidation of stearic acid and of alpha- and gamma-methyl isoprenoid-derived fatty acids (pristanic and tetramethylheptadecanoic acids, respectively) was investigated in normal skin fibroblasts and in fibroblasts from patients with inherited defects in peroxisomal biogenesis. Stearic acid beta-oxidation by normal fibroblast homogenates was several-fold greater compared to the oxidation of the two branched chain fatty acids. The effect of phosphatidylcholine, alpha-cyclodextrin, and bovine serum albumin on the three activities suggests that different enzymes are involved in the beta-oxidation of straight chain and branched chain fatty acids. Homogenates of fibroblasts from patients with a deficiency in peroxisomes (Zellweger syndrome and infantile Refsum's disease) showed a normal ability to beta-oxidize stearic acid, but the oxidation of pristanic and tetramethylheptadecanoic acid was decreased. Concomitantly, 14CO2 production from the branched chain fatty acids by Zellweger fibroblasts in culture (but not from stearic acid) was greatly diminished. The Zellweger fibroblasts also showed a marked reduction in the amount of water-soluble metabolites from the radiolabeled branched chain fatty acids that are released into the culture medium. The data presented indicate that the oxidation of alpha- and gamma-methyl isoprenoid-derived fatty acids takes place largely in peroxisomes in human skin fibroblasts.
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- H Singh
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, Australia
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- H Singh
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, South Australia
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Christensen E, Grønn M, Hagve TA, Kase BF, Christophersen BO. Adrenoleukodystrophy. The chain shortening of erucic acid (22:1(n-9)) and adrenic acid (22:4(n-6)) is deficient in neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy and normal in X-linked adrenoleukodistrophy skin fibroblasts. Biochim Biophys Acta 1989; 1002:79-83. [PMID: 2538146 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(89)90067-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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The metabolism of long chain unsaturated fatty acids was studied in cultured fibroblasts from patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) and with neonatal ALD. By using [14-14C] erucic acid (22:1(n-9)) as substrate it was shown that the peroxisomal beta-oxidation, measured as chain shortening, was impaired in cells from patients with neonatal ALD. The beta-oxidation of adrenic acid (22:4(n-6)), measured as acid-soluble products, was also reduced in the neonatal ALD cells. The peroxisomal beta-oxidation of [14-14C]erucic acid (22:1(n-9)) and [2-14C]adrenic acid (22:4(n-6)) was normal in cells from X-ALD patients. The beta-oxidation, esterification and chain elongation of [1-14C]arachidonic acid (20:4(n-6)) and [1-14C]eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5(n-3)) was normal in both X-linked ALD and in neonatal ALD. Previous studies suggest that the activation of very long chain fatty acids by a lignoceryl (24:0)-CoA ligase is deficient in X-linked ALD, while the peroxisomal beta-oxidation enzymes are deficient in neonatal ALD. The present results suggest that the peroxisomal very long-chain acyl-CoA ligase is not required for activation of unsaturated C20 and C22 fatty acids and that these fatty acids can be efficiently activated by the long chain acyl-(palmityl)-CoA ligase.
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- E Christensen
- Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oslo, Norway
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Poll-The BT, Skjeldal OH, Stokke O, Poulos A, Demaugre F, Saudubray JM. Phytanic acid alpha-oxidation and complementation analysis of classical Refsum and peroxisomal disorders. Hum Genet 1989; 81:175-81. [PMID: 2463966 DOI: 10.1007/bf00293897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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We have measured the production of 14CO2 from exogenous [1-14C] phytanic acid in fibroblast monolayers from patients with classical Refsum's disease and peroxisomal disorders. Activities in the different disorders were (percentage of control): classical Refsum's disease (5%), isolated peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase deficiency (75%), Zellweger syndrome (4%), neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (5%), and rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctate (3%). Absence of complementation was demonstrated between Zellweger syndrome and infantile Refsum's disease lines after polyethylene glycol fusion, with decreases of average activity of 11% relative to unfused cell mixtures. Classical Refsum's disease, rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata, and neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy lines all complemented one another, and Zellweger syndrome or infantile Refsum's disease lines, with average activity increases of 522%-772%. No intragenic complementation was observed within either group. Four complementation groups were detected suggesting that at least four genes are involved in phytanic acid alpha-oxidation: one gene for the enzyme phytanic acid alpha-hydroxylase (probably mitochondrial); one gene for a regulatory factor for the expression of phytanic acid alpha-decarboxylation activity and two membrane-bound peroxisomal enzymes involved in the synthesis of plasmalogens; two genes for the assembly of functional peroxisomes and/or import of proteins into peroxisomes.
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- B T Poll-The
- Clinique et Unité de Recherche de Génétique Médicale, INSERM U. 12, Hôpital des Enfants Malades, Paris, France
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Plasmalogen biosynthesis and phytanic acid oxidation activity were measured in cultured chorionic villus samples or amniocytes from four pregnancies at risk for the rhizomelic form of chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP). Normal results were obtained in three of the samples and post-natal examination or fetal ultrasound studies confirmed that the fetuses were unaffected. Chorionic villus culture in one case demonstrated defective plasmalogen biosynthesis and lack of phytanic acid oxidation. Pregnancy was interrupted at 10 weeks. Immunoblot studies of post-mortem fetal tissues showed that peroxisomal 3-oxoacyl-coenzyme A thiolase was present in the unprocessed form, a finding we had previously demonstrated in RCDP. These results establish that RCDP can be identified prenatally.
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- S Hoefler
- Kennedy Institute for Handicapped Children, Johns Hopkins University
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Poulos A, Sheffield L, Sharp P, Sherwood G, Johnson D, Beckman K, Fellenberg AJ, Wraith JE, Chow CW, Usher S. Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata: clinical, pathologic, and biochemical findings in two patients. J Pediatr 1988; 113:685-90. [PMID: 3171792 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(88)80378-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [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: 01/04/2023]
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The clinical, pathologic, and biochemical features of rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata are described in two patients. Although both patients had clinical and radiologic similarities, one patient survived for only 13 days and the other is still alive at 8 years. The most prominent pathologic feature was the marked degenerative change in the chondrocytes from resting cartilage. Fibroblast alkyldihydroxyacetone phosphate synthase activity was markedly reduced in both patients (approximately 10% of control mean); in contrast, dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyltransferase activity was only moderately reduced (50% of control mean). Alkyl and alk-l-enyl ether (plasmalogens) levels were very low in brain and liver. The accumulation of phytanic acid observed in plasma or liver was paralleled by a reduced ability of the patients' fibroblasts to oxidize phytanic acid. Our data indicate that the genetic defect in rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata results in abnormalities in two apparently unrelated pathways (i.e., phytanic acid oxidation and ether lipid biosynthesis.
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- A Poulos
- Department of Chemical Pathology, Adelaide Children's Hospital, South Australia
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Hoefler G, Hoefler S, Watkins PA, Chen WW, Moser A, Baldwin V, McGillivary B, Charrow J, Friedman JM, Rutledge L. Biochemical abnormalities in rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata. J Pediatr 1988; 112:726-33. [PMID: 2452243 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3476(88)80689-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Biochemical studies with emphasis on peroxisomal functions were conducted in six patients with well-documented rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata (RCDP) and compared with findings in patients with Zellweger syndrome and neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD). Patients with RCDP had three characteristic biochemical abnormalities: (1) profound defect in plasmalogen (ether lipid) synthesis, which is significantly greater than the analogous defect in Zellweger syndrome or neonatal ALD; (2) reduction of phytanic acid oxidation activity to 1% to 5% of control, similar to that observed in Refsum disease, Zellweger syndrome, and neonatal ALD; (3) presence of the unprocessed form of peroxisomal 3-oxoacyl-coenzyme A thiolase in the postmortem liver of two patients. Other peroxisomal functions were normal, including levels of very long chain fatty acids, pipecolic acid, and bile acid intermediates, and immunoblot studies of peroxisomal acyl-CoA oxidase and bifunctional enzyme in postmortem liver. Unlike what is observed in Zellweger syndrome and neonatal ALD, catalase activity in cultured skin fibroblasts was sedimentable, indicating that peroxisome structure is not grossly deficient in RCDP. The biochemical abnormalities in RCDP were consistent and set it apart from all the other known peroxisomal disorders.
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- G Hoefler
- Kennedy Institute, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Svatý J. [Peroxisomal disorders--elucidation of another group of degenerative diseases]. Cesk Pediatr 1988; 43:230-5. [PMID: 2456159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- R M Pauli
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Heymans HS, Oorthuys JW, Nelck G, Wanders RJ, Schutgens RB. Rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata: another peroxisomal disorder. N Engl J Med 1985; 313:187-8. [PMID: 4010717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Francis GL, Feng E, Rennert OM. Mucopolysaccharides in osteochondrodysplasias. Clin Genet 1979; 16:376-82. [PMID: 160847 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1979.tb01344.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Mucopolysaccharide (MPS) metabolism in cultured skin fibroblasts was studied in one case of each of the following osteochondrodysplasias: chondrodysplasia punctata of the rhizomelic type, thanatophoric dysplasia, campomelic dysplasia, and osteogenesis imperfecta congenita. Accumulation of both sulfated and non-sulfated MPS, as well as secretion of total MPS, was normal in chondrodysplasia punctata of the rhizomelic type and in thanatophoric dysplasia. Accumulation of both sulfated and non-sulfated MPS was normal in campomelic dysplasia. Lastly, accumulation of sulfated MPS was normal in osteogenesis imperfecta congenita.
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Bona C, Stănescu V, Streja D. Differential regional distribution of mucopolysaccharides in the human epiphyseal cartilage matrix in normal and pathologic conditions. Virchows Arch Pathol Anat Physiol Klin Med 1967; 342:274-81. [PMID: 4231905 DOI: 10.1007/bf00960597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Refetoff S, DeWind LT, DeGroot LJ. Familial syndrome combining deaf-mutism, stuppled epiphyses, goiter and abnormally high PBI: possible target organ refractoriness to thyroid hormone. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1967; 27:279-94. [PMID: 4163616 DOI: 10.1210/jcem-27-2-279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 407] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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