THIAMIN-RESPONSIVE MAPLE-SYRUP-URINE DISEASE - DECREASED AFFINITY OF THE MUTANT BRANCHED-CHAIN ALPHA-KETO ACID DEHYDROGENASE FOR ALPHA-KETOISOVALERATE AND THIAMIN PYROPHOSPHATE
THIAMIN-RESPONSIVE MAPLE-SYRUP-URINE DISEASE - DECREASED AFFINITY OF THE MUTANT BRANCHED-CHAIN ALPHA-KETO ACID DEHYDROGENASE FOR ALPHA-KETOISOVALERATE AND THIAMIN PYROPHOSPHATE
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.79.10.3300
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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通讯作者:
COX, RP
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作者:
CHUANG, DT;KU, LS;COX, RP
The biochemical basis for the therapeutic effects of thiamin in thiamine-responsive maple-syrup-urine disease (MSUD) was investigated in intact and disrupted fibroblast cultures from normals and patients with various forms of MSUD. Decarboxylation of .alpha.-keto [1-14C]isovalerate (KIV) by intact cells from a thiamine-responsive MSUD patient was at 30-40% of the normal rate with or without thiamine in the incubation medium. Under similar conditions, intact classical MSUD fibroblasts failed to decarboxylate KIV. Branched-chain .alpha.-keto acid (BCKA) dehydrogenase activity measured in disrupted cells from the thiamine-responsive subject showed sigmoidal kinetics in the absence of thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP), with an increased concentration of substrate needed for half-maximal velocity (K0.5 for KIV = 7 mM vs. 0.05 mM in normal cells). When assayed with 0.2 mM TPP present, the mutant enzyme showed a shift in kinetics to near Michaelis-Menten type as observed with the normal BCKA dehydrogenase and a lower K0.5 value of 4 mM for KIV, suggesting a TPP-mediated increase in the mutant enzyme''s affinity for substrate. By contrast, TPP increased only the Vmax and was without effect on the apparent Km for KIV of the BCKA dehydrogenase from cells of normals and patients with classical MSUD and variant thiamine-nonresponsive MSUD (grade 3). Measurement of the apparent Km for TPP of the BCKA dehydrogenase from thiamine-responsive mutant MSUD cells showed a 16-fold increase in the constant to 25 .mu.M compared to enzymes from normal or classical MSUD cells. The primary defect in the thiamine-responsive MSUD patient is a reduced affinity of the mutant BCKA dehydrogenase for TPP that results in impaired oxidative decarboxylation of BCKA.