Article
Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency: mechanisms, mimics and anaplerosis.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Sept 2010
Marin-Valencia Isaac, Roe Charles R, Pascual Juan M
Abstract excerpt
Pyruvate carboxylase (PC) is a regulated mitochondrial enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of pyruvate to oxaloacetate, a critical transition that replenishes citric acid cycle intermediates and facilitates other biosynthetic reactions that drive anabolism. Its deficiency causes multiorgan metabolic imbalance that predominantly manifests with lactic acidemia and neurological dysfunction at an early age. Three...
Topics
- Animals
- Carbon
- Humans
- Oxaloacetic Acid
- Phenotype
- Pyruvate Carboxylase
- Pyruvate Carboxylase Deficiency Disease
- Pyruvic Acid
