Diagnosis of infantile and juvenile forms of GM2gangliosidosis variant 0. residual activities toward natural and different synthetic substrates
✍ Scribed by H. -J. Kytzia; U. Hinrichs; K. Sandhoff
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 432 KB
- Volume
- 67
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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✦ Synopsis
p-Nitrophenyl-6-sulfo-2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-D-glucopyranoside, which is known to be a specific substrate for human hexosaminidase A, has recently been used successfully for diagnosis of variants B and B1 of GM2-gangliosidosis (Fuchs et al. 1983; Kytzia et al. 1983; Li et al. 1983). However, it is hydrolyzed by hexosaminidase S as well and is therefore not suitable for detection of patients with variant 0, who reach the normal range of activity toward this substrate. Assay of ganglioside GM2 cleaving activity in fibroblast extracts in the presence of the natural GM2 activator protein reveals residual hexosaminidase A activities of less than 2% of normal controls in two infantile and up to 7.5% in two juvenile patients with variant 0.