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ABSTRACT: A patient who responded to thiamine therapy with reduction of lactate in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid and clinical improvement was studied. Cultured lymphoblastoid cells of this patient were found to show reduced activities of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) and pyruvate dehydrogenase, decreased affinity of PDHC for thiamine pyrophosphate, and defective activation of PDHC by pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase. PDHC deficiency in fibroblasts and biopsied muscle of this patient was also due to the decreased affinity of PDHC for thiamine pyrophosphate. A mutation in the E1α subunit containing the thiamine binding site and serine phosphorylation site regulating the activation/inactivation of PDHC was characterized by the polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing. A single A→G transition was identified at position 131, resulting in the substitution of Arg-44 for His-44. This mutation must be a de novo mutation because it was not found in either parent's genomic DNA. In this study, we have obtained the first evidence at the molecular level for a mutation of thiamine-responsive PDHC deficiency.
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Naito, E., Ito, M., Takeda, E. et al. Molecular Analysis of Abnormal Pyruvate Dehydrogenase in a Patient with Thiamine-Responsive Congenital Lactic Acidemia. Pediatr Res 36, 340–346 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-199409000-00013
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