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FSH isoform pattern in classic galactosemia

✍ Scribed by Cynthia S. Gubbels; Chris M. G. Thomas; Will K. W. H. Wodzig; André J. Olthaar; Jaak Jaeken; Fred C. G. J. Sweep; M. Estela Rubio-Gozalbo


Publisher
Springer
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
375 KB
Volume
34
Category
Article
ISSN
0141-8955

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✦ Synopsis


Female classic galactosemia patients suffer from primary ovarian insufficiency (POI). The cause for this long-term complication is not fully understood. One of the proposed mechanisms is that hypoglycosylation of complex molecules, a known secondary phenomenon of galactosemia, leads to FSH dysfunction. An earlier study showed less acidic isoforms of FSH in serum samples of two classic galactosemia patients compared to controls, indicating hypoglycosylation. In this study, FSH isoform patterns of five classic galactosemia patients with POI were compared to the pattern obtained in two patients with a primary glycosylation disorder (phosphomannomutase-2-deficient congenital disorders of glycosylation, PMM2-CDG) and POI, and in five postmenopausal women as controls. We used FPLC chromatofocussing with measurement of FSH concentration per fraction, and discovered that there were no significant differences between galactosemia patients, PMM2-CDG patients and postmenopausal controls. Our results do not support that FSH dysfunction due to a less acidic isoform pattern because of hypoglycosylation is a key mechanism of POI in this disease.


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