title: Thiamine responsive pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency.
abstract: We studied a PDH deficient patient who is clinically responsive to thiamine. High Km and low Vmax values for the TPP were identified in the patient's cultured cells. Immunoblot analysis detected trace amount of mutant E1 alpha polypeptide which was 3.5 KD larger than normal in size. Four-nucleotide deletion in the E1 alpha gene causes a reading frame shift, producing an abnormal polypeptide with additional 31 amino acids at C-terminus of the E1 alpha subunit. The tryptophan (codon 383) and lysine (385) residues near the C-terminus might play a crucial role in the binding of TPP to the E1.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemical Genetics, University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Narisawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Endo
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyabayashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tada
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D002648:Child; D005080:Exercise Test; D017353:Gene Deletion; D006801:Humans; D007700:Kinetics; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015325:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex Deficiency Disease / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000235:genetics; D013831:Thiamine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
chemical_list: D013831:Thiamine