Article
Perspectives on methylmalonic acidemia resulting from molecular cloning of methylmalonyl CoA mutase.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Jul 1990
Ledley F D
Abstract excerpt
Methylmalonyl CoA mutase deficiency (methylmalonic acidemia) has been a paradigm for biochemical and somatic cell genetic approaches to human disease. Recently, genes encoding this enzyme have been cloned from several species. These studies have provided information about the primary structure and evolution of this enzyme, the mutations which underlie its deficiency state, and the structure-function determinants...
Topics
- Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6
- Cloning, Molecular
- Genetic Therapy
- Humans
- Isomerases
- Methylmalonyl-CoA Mutase
- Mutation
