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Non–pseudogene-derived complex acid β-glucosidase mutations causing mild type 1 and severe type 2 Gaucher disease
Marie E. Grace, … , Agnes Soni, Robert J. Desnick
Marie E. Grace, … , Agnes Soni, Robert J. Desnick
Published March 15, 1999
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 1999;103(6):817-823. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI5168.
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Non–pseudogene-derived complex acid β-glucosidase mutations causing mild type 1 and severe type 2 Gaucher disease

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Gaucher disease is an autosomal recessive inborn error of glycosphingolipid metabolism caused by the deficient activity of the lysosomal hydrolase, acid β-glucosidase. Three phenotypically distinct subtypes result from different acid β-glucosidase mutations encoding enzymes with absent or low activity. A severe neonatal type 2 variant who presented with collodion skin, ichthyosis, and a rapid neurodegenerative course had two novel acid β-glucosidase alleles: a complex, maternally derived allele, E326K+L444P, and a paternally inherited nonsense mutation, E233X. Because the only other non–pseudogene-derived complex allele, D140H+E326K, also had the E326K lesion and was reported in a mild type 1 patient with a D140H+E326K/K157Q genotype, these complex alleles and their individual mutations were expressed and characterized. Because the E233X mutation expressed no activity and the K157Q allele had ∼1% normal specific activity based on cross-reacting immunologic material (CRIM SA) in the baculovirus system, the residual activity in both patients was primarily from their complex alleles. In the type 1 patient, the D140H+E326K allele was neuroprotective, encoding an enzyme with a catalytic efficiency similar to that of the N370S enzyme. In contrast, the E326K+L444P allele did not have sufficient activity to protect against the neurologic manifestations and, in combination with the inactive E233X lesion, resulted in the severe neonatal type 2 variant. Thus, characterization of these novel genotypes with non–pseudogene-derived complex mutations provided the pathogenic basis for their diverse phenotypes.

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Marie E. Grace, Patricia Ashton-Prolla, Gregory M. Pastores, Agnes Soni, Robert J. Desnick

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Phenotypes and genotypes of the GD patients carrying the E326K mutation

Phenotypes and genotypes of the GD patients carrying the E326K mutation


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