Article
Fungal metabolic model for human type I hereditary tyrosinaemia.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 26 Sept 1995
Fernández-Cañón J M, Peñalva M A
Abstract excerpt
Type I hereditary tyrosinaemia (HT1) is a severe human inborn disease resulting from loss of fumaryl-acetoacetate hydrolase (Fah). Homozygous disruption of the gene encoding Fah in mice causes neonatal lethality, seriously limiting use of this animal as a model. We report here that fahA, the gene encoding Fah in the fungus Aspergillus nidulans, encodes a polypeptide showing 47.1% identity to its human homologue,...
Topics
- Amino Acid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Aspergillus nidulans
- Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
- Dioxygenases
- Enzyme Inhibitors
- Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry
- Genes, Fungal
- Heptanoates
- Homogentisate 1,2-Dioxygenase
