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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-5-18
pubmed:abstractText
An infant girl of consanguinous Bedouin parents suffered from fatal early onset of progressive generalized muscle weakness. Her older brother suffered from similar weakness and cardiomyopathy, which led to his death at the age of 21 months. A muscle biopsy performed on the propositus at the age of 9 months was PAS-negative, and showed nonspecific myopathic changes. A second muscle biopsy, performed at 21 months of age, a few days before her death, and postmortem study of heart and liver, disclosed excessive extralysosomal glycogen storage and reduced phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1) activity. Because the genes encoded for PFK-1 in liver and muscle are located on separate chromosomes, the reduced enzyme activity in both tissues could not be related to a single mutation for this enzyme. Activity of 6-phosphofructose-2-kinase (PFK-2), a recently discovered physiological activator to all PFK-1 isozymes, was normal in the liver. The possibility that this multisystem PFK-1 deficiency may be related to the absence of a yet unknown activator, common to all PFK-1 isozymes, is discussed.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0148-639X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
455-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Fatal familial infantile glycogen storage disease: multisystem phosphofructokinase deficiency.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pediatrics, Soroka Medical Center Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Jerusalem, Israel.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports