Beta galactosidase and the Morquio syndrome
✍ Scribed by Spranger, Jürgen W.
- Book ID
- 101444845
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 189 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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Fibroblasts from patients with Morquio B syndrome contain normal numbers of 0-galactosidase molecules with normal turnover but strongly reduced activity per enzyme molecule. Various substrate affinities are abnormal: the K, for methylum belliferyl (MU)-P-galactoside is 4-10-fold elevated and affinit
We read with interest the report of Fujimoto and Horowitz (1983) about two sibs with mild manifestations of Morquio syndrome. Recently we evaluated a 13-10/12-year-old boy who was referred because of nonresolving bilateral Legg-Perthes disease (Fig. 1). His height (Tanner stadiometer) was 149.2 cm (