| Literature DB >> 174426 |
N R Glick, P J Snodgrass, I A Schafer.
Abstract
An infant is described who died at 6 days of age with hyperammonemia and argininosuccinic acid in the urine. Argininosuccinic acid lyase (AL) was absent in liver, decreased in red blood cells, but normal in brain and kidney. The instability of AL in frozen stored tissues accounts for previous reports of deficient AL activity in the brain and kidney of neonates with this disease. The variation of AL activity in the tissues of this patient demonstrates that more than one gene locus either codes for the structure of this enzyme or regulates its biosynthesis in different organs.Entities:
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Year: 1976 PMID: 174426 PMCID: PMC1684908
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Hum Genet ISSN: 0002-9297 Impact factor: 11.025