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Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is a disease of purine metabolism which affects patients both biochemically and behaviorally. The symptoms are variable and include psychomotor retardation, autistic features, hypotonia, and seizures. Patients also accumulate the substrates of ADSL in body fluids. Both the presence of normal levels of ADSL enzyme activities in some patient tissues and the absence of a clear correlation between mutations, biochemistry, and behavior show that the system has unexplored biochemical and/or genetic complexity. It is unclear whether the pathological mechanisms of this disease result from a deficiency of purines, a toxicity of intermediates, or perturbation of another pathway or system. A patient with autistic features and mild psychomotor delay carries two novel mutations in this gene, E80D and D87E. The creation of a mouse model of this disease will be an important step in elucidating the in vivo mechanisms of the disease. Mice carrying mutations that cause ADSL deficiency in humans will be informative as to the effects of these mutations both during embryogenesis and on the brain, possibly leading to therapies for this disease in the future.
Mol Genet Metab
PMID:Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency. 1683 92

Adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency is a rare neurometabolic recessive disorder of purine metabolism characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations. We present a very mild phenotype of two siblings characterized by mild isolated cognitive disability, in absence of brain anomalies, seizures, EEG anomalies and without progression of disease. The two patients had unsuccessfully been investigated until clinical exome was performed. In both siblings, compound heterozygosity for two inherited missense variants in ADSL gene, c.76A>T (p.Met26Leu) and c.1187G>A (p.Arg396His), were detected. Analysis of the catabolic pathway of autophagy on EBV-transformed B lymphoblastoid cell derived from the male patient excluded the presence of any autophagy alterations at the basal level. Further studies are necessary to understand the pathogenesis of the disease and to elucidate the potential role of autophagy in the development of ADSL deficiency.
Mol Genet Metab Rep 2020 Jun
PMID:Very mild isolated intellectual disability caused by adenylosuccinate lyase deficiency: a new phenotype. 3240 61