| Literature DB >> 12716015 |
Carmen Pilla1, Rui Felipe de Oliveira Cardozo, Carlos Severo Dutra-Filho, Angela Terezinha Souza Wyse, Moacir Wajner, Clóvis Milton Duval Wannmacher.
Abstract
Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is an inherited metabolic disorder biochemically characterized by the accumulation of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) and their branched-chain keto acids (BCKAs) in blood and other tissues. Neurological dysfunction is usually present in the affected patients, but the mechanisms of brain damage in this disease are not fully understood. Considering that brain energy metabolism seems to be altered in MSUD, the main objective of this study was to investigate the in vitro effect of BCAAs and BCKAs on creatine kinase activity, a key enzyme of energy homeostasis, in brain cortex of young rats. BCAAs, but not their BCKAs, significantly inhibited creatine kinase activity at concentrations similar to those found in the plasma of MSUD patients (0.5-5 mM). Considering the crucial role creatine kinase plays in energy homeostasis in brain, if this effect also occurs in the brain of MSUD patients, it is possible that inhibition of this enzyme activity may contribute to the brain damage found in this disease.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12716015 DOI: 10.1023/a:1022876130038
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurochem Res ISSN: 0364-3190 Impact factor: 3.996