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Late-Onset Acid Maltase DeficiencyDetection of Patients and Heterozygotes by Urinary Enzyme Assay
Mark Mehler;
Salvatore DiMauro, MD
Arch Neurol. 1976;33(10):692-695.
Abstract
• Daily urinary excretion of acid maltase (12.78 ± 2.10 units/24 hr/mg of creatinine, in 11 normal adults) was significantly decreased in ten patients with late-onset acid maltase deficiency (1.33 ± O.16 units/24 hr; P <.001) and 11 heterozygotes (3.27 ± 0.62 units/24 hr; P <.001). Maximal inhibition of urinary acid maltase activity by antibodies against human placental enzyme was 53% in controls, 30% in heterozygotes, and virtually absent in patients.
Investigation of pH curves and enzyme inhibition by antibodies confirmed the presence in the kidney of an immunologically distinct "extra" maltase enzyme active at acid pH. Whether acid maltase in normal urine originates in the kidney or cells of the lower urinary tract, the enzyme defect seems to be expressed in these cells in late-onset acid maltase deficiency.
Author Affiliations
From the H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Neurological Institute, Presbyterian Hospital, New York.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 25, 1976.
Read in part before the 101st annual meeting of the American Neurological Association, San Francisco, June 15, 1976.
Reprint requests to Neurological Institute of Columbia University, 710 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032 (Dr DiMauro).
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