Gene/Protein Disease Symptom Drug Enzyme Compound
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Query: EC:4.1.2.13 (aldolase)
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In the past few years, very rapid advances have been made in the field of red cell enzymopathies associated with hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia, particularly in molecular basis. Nucleotide sequence and amino acid sequence of normal human red cell enzymes have been clarified in phosphofructokinase, aldolase, triosephosphate isomerase, phosphoglycerate kinase, pyruvate kinase, diphosphoglycerate mutase, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase, adenylate kinase and adenosine deaminase. Furthermore, in aldolase-, triosephosphate isomerase-, diphosphoglycerate mutase-, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase-, and adenylate kinase deficiency, single nucleotide changes which cause single amino acid substitutions and finally hemolysis, have been found.
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PMID:Molecular basis of red cell enzymopathies associated with hereditary nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia. 256 Apr 52

Two cases of red cell aldolase deficiency associated with congenital nonspherocytic hemolytic anemia are reported. The proband is a fourteen-month-old Japanese boy. Consanguineous marriage was not proven but probable in this family, as the parents were born in the same small island. The proband had moderate to mild anemia aggravated by upper respiratory infections, 1 cm hepatomegaly and 2.5 cm splenomegaly, but was unremarkable in other respects and has thus far not shown mental or growth retardation. He did not have dysmorphic features. The red cell aldolase activity was 6% of the normal mean. The enzyme was unstable with respect to heat, and Km for fructose 1,6-diphosphate (F-1,6-DP) was high. The parents and other heterozygotes showed intermediate activity between that of the proband and that of normal subjects. Red cell F-1,6-DP concentration in this case was remarkably increased. Red cell glucose consumption, and lactate formation, as well as hexose monophosphate shunt activity, were decreased as compared with a comparable reticulocyte-rich hereditary spherocytosis patient. Hexose monophosphate dehydrogenase by a high concentration of F-1,6-DP in his red cells. As a result of family study, another homozygous aldolase deficiency case associated with hemolytic anemia was found. He is 13 years old and a nephew of the proband's paternal grandmother. His hemolytic anemia also is moderate to mild and aggravated by upper respiratory infections. He does not seem to have mental or growth retardation, nor does he possess dysmorphic features.
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PMID:Two cases of red cell aldolase deficiency associated with hereditary hemolytic anemia in a Japanese family. 733 96