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ReviewJournal of inherited metabolic disease2020

Inborn errors of metabolite repair.

Maria Veiga-da-Cunha, Emile Van Schaftingen, Guido T Bommer

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Review in Journal of inherited metabolic disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Maria Veiga-da-Cunhade Duve Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2968-7374
Emile Van Schaftingende Duve Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium.
Guido T Bommerde Duve Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Brussels, Belgium.
de Duve Institute · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It is traditionally assumed that enzymes of intermediary metabolism are extremely specific and that this is sufficient to prevent the production of useless and/or toxic side-products. Recent work indicates that this statement is not entirely correct. In reality, enzymes are not strictly specific, they often display weak side activities on intracellular metabolites (substrate promiscuity) that resemble their physiological substrate or slowly catalyse abnormal reactions on their physiological substrate (catalytic promiscuity). They thereby produce non-classical metabolites that are not efficiently metabolised by conventional enzymes. In an increasing number of cases, metabolite repair enzymes are being discovered that serve to eliminate these non-classical metabolites and prevent their accumulation. Metabolite repair enzymes also eliminate non-classical metabolites that are formed through spontaneous (ie, not enzyme-catalysed) reactions. Importantly, genetic deficiencies in several metabolite repair enzymes lead to 'inborn errors of metabolite repair', such as L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, 'ubiquitous glucose-6-phosphatase' (G6PC3) deficiency, the neutropenia present in Glycogen Storage Disease type Ib or defects in the enzymes that repair the hydrated forms of NADH or NADPH. Metabolite repair defects may be difficult to identify as such, because the mutated enzymes are non-classical enzymes that act on non-classical metabolites, which in some cases accumulate only inside the cells, and at rather low, yet toxic, concentrations. It is therefore likely that many additional metabolite repair enzymes remain to be discovered and that many diseases of metabolite repair still await elucidation.

Indexed as

Brain Diseases, Metabolic, InbornEnzymesGlucose-6-PhosphataseGlycogen Storage Disease Type IHumansMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMetabolismMetabolism, Inborn ErrorsNeutropeniaEnzymesGlucose-6-Phosphatase1,5-anhydroglucitol-6-phosphateD-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduriaenzyme promiscuityG6PC3G6PTgalactoseinborn errors of metabolismmetabolite repairNADP(H)XneutropeniaPGM1SGLT2 inhibitorUGP2

Identifiers

PMID31691304
PMCPMC7041631
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