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Four novel PDHA1 mutations in pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Dec 2009
Ostergaard E, Moller L Birk, Kalkanoglu-Sivri H Serap, Dursun A, Kibaek M, Thelle T, Christensen E, Duno M, Wibrand F
Abstract excerpt
The pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex is a mitochondrial multienzyme that catalyses the irreversible oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA. We report four novel PDHA1 mutations in patients with pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency. Analysis of PDH activity showed decreased activity in fibroblasts from all four patients, around 16-52% of mean control, similar to what has been found in previous...
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