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Abstract
In Tay-Sachs disease and Sandhoff's disease respectively, one of the N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases (form A) or both (forms A and B) are absent, but glycosaminoglycans containing N-acetylhexosamines are not accumulated. The presence of NN'-diacetylchitobiase in livers from patients with these diseases raises the possibility that this new enzyme is involved in the metabolism of glycosaminoglycans rather than the enzymes previously described.Entities:
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Year: 1974 PMID: 4455225 PMCID: PMC1168118 DOI: 10.1042/bj1410597
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857