Human guanidinoacetate n-methyl transferase (GAMT) deficiency:A treatable inborn error of metabolism
Journal Title: Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 28, Issue 6
Abstract
The creatine biosynthetic pathway is essential for cellular phosphate associated energy production and storage, particularly in tissues having higher metabolic demands. Guanidinoacetate N-Methyl transferase (GAMT) is an important enzyme in creatine endogenous biosynthetic pathway, with highest expression in liver and kidney. GAMT deficiency is an inherited autosomal recessive trait that was the first among creatine deficiency syndrome to be reported in 1994 having characteristic features of no comprehensible speech development, severe mental retardation, muscular hypotonia, involuntary movements and seizures that partly cannot be treated with anti-epileptic drugs. Due to problematic endogenous creatine biosynthesis, systemic depletion of creatine/phosphocreatine and accumulation of guanidinoacetate takes place that are the diagnostic features of this disease. Dietary creatine supplementation alone or along with arginine restriction has been reported to be beneficial for all treated patients, although to various extent. However, none of the GAMT deficient patient has been reported to return to complete normal developmental level.
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Furhan Iqbal
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