Molecular analysis of hyperoxaluria type 1 in Italian patients reveals eight new mutations in the alanine : glyoxylate aminotransferase gene

1999 ◽  
Vol 104 (6) ◽  
pp. 523-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doroti Pirulli ◽  
Daniela Puzzer ◽  
Laura Ferri ◽  
Sergio Crovella ◽  
A. Amoroso ◽  
...  
2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. napoc.2015.1467
Author(s):  
Mohammed Hameed ◽  
Kashif Eqbal ◽  
Beena Nair ◽  
Alexander Woywodt ◽  
Aimun Ahmed

Primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) is a rare, inherited, autosomal recessive, metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency of peroxisomal alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT). We describe here a case of a 57-year-old man with End Stage Renal Disease, where the late age of presentation of PH T1 due to marked heterogeneity of disease expression caused a delay in diagnosis, and we discuss the causes of the poor outcome typical of this condition


1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Danpure ◽  
Patricia R. Jennings ◽  
Richard J. Penketh ◽  
Pauline J. Wise ◽  
Penelope J. Cooper ◽  
...  

1990 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 2341-2351 ◽  
Author(s):  
P E Purdue ◽  
Y Takada ◽  
C J Danpure

We have previously shown that in some patients with primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1), disease is associated with mistargeting of the normally peroxisomal enzyme alanine/glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT) to mitochondria (Danpure, C.J., P.J. Cooper, P.J. Wise, and P.R. Jennings. J. Cell Biol. 108:1345-1352). We have synthesized, amplified, cloned, and sequenced AGT cDNA from a PH1 patient with mitochondrial AGT (mAGT). This identified three point mutations that cause amino acid substitutions in the predicted AGT protein sequence. Using PCR and allele-specific oligonucleotide hybridization, a range of PH1 patients and controls were screened for these mutations. This revealed that all eight PH1 patients with mAGT carried at least one allele with the same three mutations. Two were homozygous for this allele and six were heterozygous. In at least three of the heterozygotes, it appeared that only the mutant allele was expressed. All three mutations were absent from PH1 patients lacking mAGT. One mutation encoding a Gly----Arg substitution at residue 170 was not found in any of the control individuals. However, the other two mutations, encoding Pro----Leu and Ile----Met substitutions at residues 11 and 340, respectively, cosegregated in the normal population at an allelic frequency of 5-10%. In an individual homozygous for this allele (substitutions at residues 11 and 340) only a small proportion of AGT appeared to be rerouted to mitochondria. It is suggested that the substitution at residue 11 generates an amphiphilic alpha-helix with characteristics similar to recognized mitochondrial targeting sequences, the full functional expression of which is dependent upon coexpression of the substitution at residue 170, which may induce defective peroxisomal import.


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