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Differential metabolic consequences of fumarate hydratase and respiratory chain defects.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 May 2008
Raimundo Nuno, Ahtinen Jouni, Fumić Ksenija, Barić Ivo, Remes Anne M, Renkonen Risto, Lapatto Risto, Suomalainen Anu
Abstract excerpt
Defects of the oxidative ATP production pathway lead to an amazing variety of disease phenotypes, ranging from childhood encephalomyopathies to hereditary tumor formation. A key enzyme of tricarboxylic cycle, fumarate hydratase (FH), is involved in encephalopathies, but also in leiomyoma formation, and occasionally also in various types of cancer. MELAS (mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and...
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