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Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of citrin (a mitochondrial aspartate glutamate carrier) deficiency.
Metabolic brain disease - 1 Dec 2002
Saheki Takeyori, Kobayashi Keiko, Iijima Mikio, Nishi Ikumi, Yasuda Tomotsugu, Yamaguchi Naoki, Gao Hong Zhi, Jalil Md Abdul, Begum Laila, Li Meng Xian
Abstract excerpt
Adult-onset type II citrullinemia (CTLN2), characterized by a liver-specific deficiency of urea cycle enzyme, argininosuccinate synthetase, is caused by mutations in SLC25A13 that encodes a calcium binding mitochondrial solute carrier protein, citrin. Citrin deficiency causes not only CTLN2 but also neonatal intrahepatic cholestasis caused by citrin deficiency at neonatal period. Moreover citrin and its isoform...
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