DEFICIENCY OF ELECTRON-TRANSFER FLAVOPROTEIN OR ELECTRON-TRANSFER FLAVOPROTEIN - UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE IN GLUTARIC ACIDEMIA TYPE-II FIBROBLASTS
DEFICIENCY OF ELECTRON-TRANSFER FLAVOPROTEIN OR ELECTRON-TRANSFER FLAVOPROTEIN - UBIQUINONE OXIDOREDUCTASE IN GLUTARIC ACIDEMIA TYPE-II FIBROBLASTS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.82.13.4517
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
GOODMAN, SI
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作者:
FRERMAN, FE;GOODMAN, SI
Glutaric acidemia type II (GA II) is a human genetic disorder. The primary defect in this disorder may be a deficiency of a protein involved in electron transport between the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases and the bc1 complex of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Antisera were raised to purified porcine electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF) and electron transfer flavoprotein:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ETF:QO). The antisera were used to detect the 2 electron transferases in control and GA II fibroblasts by immunoblotting. Fibroblasts from 3 unrelated GA II patients were deficient in immunologically detectable ETF:QO and extracts from these 3 fibroblast lines contained no detectable ETF:QO catalytic activity. Fibroblasts from parents of 2 of these patients had ETF:QO activity intermediate between activities in control fibroblasts and fibroblasts from the patients. The primary defect in these patients is deficiency of ETF:QO and that the mode of transmission of the gene is autosomal recessive. Fibroblasts from 2 other patients with severe GA II had normal levels of ETF-QO activity and antigen but were deficient in immunoreactive ETF. GA II results from a deficiency of ETF in some patients and ETF:QO in others. These investigations provide strong evidence for the specificity and physiological function of the iron-sulfur flavoprotein ETF:QO.