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ArticleClinical and experimental nephrology2018

Plasma lyso-Gb3: a biomarker for monitoring fabry patients during enzyme replacement therapy.

Hitoshi Sakuraba, Tadayasu Togawa, Takahiro Tsukimura, Hiroshi Kato

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Article in Clinical and experimental nephrology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Hitoshi SakurabaDepartment of Clinical Genetics, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo, 204-8588, Japan. sakuraba@my-pharm.ac.jp.
Tadayasu TogawaDepartment of Functional Bioanalysis, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo, 204-8588, Japan.
Takahiro TsukimuraDepartment of Functional Bioanalysis, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, 2-522-1 Noshio, Kiyose, Tokyo, 204-8588, Japan.
Hiroshi KatoSpecialty Medical Affairs Group, Medical Affairs, Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd., 17-10, Kyobashi 1-Chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0031, Japan.
Meiji Pharmaceutical University · JPSumitomo Dainippon Pharma (Japan) · JP

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 15K09606
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundRecently, globotriaosylsphingosine (lyso-Gb3) has attracted interest as a biomarker of Fabry disease. However, little is known regarding its utility for the evaluation of the therapeutic efficacy.

methodWe measured plasma lyso-Gb3 concentration in Japanese healthy subjects and Fabry patients by means of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). We determined the reference interval in Japanese (UMIN000016854), and examined the effect of enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) with recombinant α-galactosidase A (GLA) and the influence of antibodies against the enzyme on the plasma lyso-Gb3 level in Fabry patients (UMIN000017152).

resultsThe reference interval was determined to be 0.35-0.71 nmol/L, this being almost the same as the normal range in a non-Japanese population previously reported. The analysis revealed that the plasma lyso-Gb3 level was strikingly increased in classic Fabry males, and to a lesser extent in later-onset Fabry males and Fabry females. The elevation of the plasma lyso-Gb3 level was related to renal involvement in the Fabry females. ERT gave a rapid reduction in the elevated plasma lyso-Gb3 level in the classic Fabry males, and a gradual one or stabilization in most of the later-onset Fabry males and Fabry females. However, formation of antibodies against the recombinant GLA had a negative effect on the reduction of plasma lyso-Gb3.

conclusionsRegular observation of plasma lyso-Gb3 and antibodies is useful for monitoring of Fabry patients during ERT.

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Enzyme Replacement Therapyalpha-GalactosidaseBiomarkersFabry DiseaseFemaleGlycolipidsHumansMaleSphingolipidsalpha-GalactosidaseBiomarkersglobotriaosyl lysosphingolipidGlycolipidsSphingolipidsAntibodyEnzyme replacement therapyFabry diseaseGlobotriaosylsphingosine

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