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Contrasting behaviors of mutant cystathionine beta-synthase enzymes associated with pyridoxine response.
Human mutation - 1 May 2006
Chen X, Wang L, Fazlieva R, Kruger W D
Abstract excerpt
Cystathionine beta-synthase (CBS) deficiency is a recessive genetic disorder characterized by extremely elevated levels in plasma homocysteine. Patients homozygous for the I278T or R266K mutations respond clinically to pharmacologic doses of pyridoxine, the precursor of a cofactor for the enzyme, 5'-pyridoxal phosphate (PLP). Here we test the hypothesis that these mutations are pyridoxine responsive because they...
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