Abstract
Adenosine deaminase (ADA) could be quantitated and the isozyme pattern characterized in cultured amniotic fluid cells. In 20 amniotic fluid cell cultures the mean specific activity was 14.3 U/g protein +/- 6.7 (SD) and compared favorably with values of 14.6 U/g protein +/- 6.8 (SD) observed in 26 cultures of skin fibroblasts. In cultures of skin fibroblasts established from two obligate heterozygotes for ADA deficiency, the specific activity of ADA was 7.0 and 7.7 U/g protein. The ADA isozyme pattern that existed in cultures of amniotic fluid cells was the same as that observed in cultured skin fibroblasts. This identification of the same apparent enzyme may permit the prenatal diagnosis of that form of combined immunodeficiency disease caused by ADA deficiency. Residual enzyme activity of less than 1% and 10% of the mean of normal fibroblasts could be measured in cultured fibroblasts from two unrelated children with ADA deficiency and combined immunodeficiency disease. The tissue-specific enzyme from cultured skin fibroblasts from the child with 10% residual activity had a faster electrophoretic mobility and greater heat stability than normal ADA. This enzymatic evidence indicates that at least two mutant alleles exist at the locus for ADA which predispose to combined immunodeficiency disease when present in the homozygous state.
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