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. 1975 Jul;72(7):2799–2803. doi: 10.1073/pnas.72.7.2799

Methylmalonicacidemia: biochemical heterogeneity in defects of 5'-deoxyadenosylcobalamin synthesis.

M J Mahoney, A C Hart, V D Steen, L E Rosenberg
PMCID: PMC432859  PMID: 1058495

Abstract

We measured the synthesis of 5'-deoxyadenosylcobalamin (AdoCbl) in fibroblast extracts from patients with inherited methylmalonicacidemia due to deficient activity of the cobalamin-dependent holoenzyme, methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (EC 5.4.99.2). Previous studies with intact fibroblasts from patients whose holoenzyme deficiency was secondary to abnormal cobalamin metabolism had defined two phenotypes, one in which whole cells failed to accumulate AdoCbl and a second in which they failed to accumulate both AdoCbl and the second cobalamin coenzyme, methylcobalamin. With a broken cell assay of AdoCbl synthesis in cell extracts and the cell lines are named cbl A mutants; the other class shows severe deficiency of AdoCbl synthesis and the cell lines are named cbl B mutants. We define cbl C mutants as those in which both AdoCbl and methylcobalamin fail to accumulate in intact cells. The assay for AdoCbl synthesis is thought to measure two enzymatic activities, cob(II)alamin reductase (EC 1.6.99.9) and cob(I)alamin adenosyltransferase (EC 2.5.1.17). Subcellular fractionation studies place this combined activity in mitochondria.

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