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1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

A novel form of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum: Elucidatim of abnormal metabolites in urine and enzyme defect.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 02454279
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Dermatology
Research InstitutionKagoshima University (1992)
Nagoya City University (1990-1991)

Principal Investigator

KANZAKI Tamotsu  Kagoshima University faculty of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (80118801)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) HIRABAYASHI Yoshio  The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research(RIKEN), Sugar-Information, Chief, 国際フロンティア糖情報部門, 主任研究員 (90106435)
Project Period (FY) 1990 – 1992
KeywordsAngiokeratoma / Lysosomal storage disease / alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase / Kanzaki disease / Schindler disease / Molecular analysis / Point mutation
Research Abstract

A novel form of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum was discovered in a Japanese female. Abnormal metabolites were detected in the patient's urine and those were reveald to be O-limked glycoaminoacids. From these chemical formula, this novel lysosomal storage disease, now termed Kanzaki disease, was revealed to be caused by an enzyme deficit, ie, alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase. ALL these were elucidated in the past a few years in this project. We tried to elucidate a possible defect in the gene encoding this enzyme protein in the last one year.
As a result, it was found that a base at the 985th was switched C to T resulting in a change of amino acid of arginine to tryptophane at 329th. This gene was transfected to COS-1 cell and a new protein was observed to be produced by COS-1 cell. This protein reacted with an antibody to the enzyme but did not show an enzymatic activity. Secondly, a computer-assisted two-dimensional molecular structure was studied and it showed that an change of amino acid induced a secondary change from beta-pleated sheet to random coil. this was quit different from the change observed in Schindler disease, i,e., alpha-helix formation. This change was thought to be the cause of susceptibility of these resultant abnormal enzyme proteines to proteases in lysosomes. This will explain the great differences in the phenotypical expression in the patients with Kanzaki disease and Schindler disease (Wang, A,M. Kanzaki, T. and Desnick,R.J.). These results obtained in this year will be published in Archives of Dermatology (in press,1993) and were submitted to other journals.
Thus, all research works, from the discovery to the molecular analysis of a noval lysosomal storase disease with angiokeratoma corporis diffusum (Kanzaki), planned in this project were successfully accomplished in these years.

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] Kanzaki,T.,Yokota,M.,Irie,F.,Hirabayashi,Y.,Wang,A.M.and Desnick,R.J.: "Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum with glycopeptiduria due to deficient lysosomal α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase activity:Clinical,morphologic and biochemical studies" Arch.Dermatol. (1993)

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  • [Publications] Wang,A.M.,Kanzaki,T.and Desnick,R.J.: "The molecular lesion in the α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase gene that causes angiokeratoma corporis diffusum with glycopeytiduria" J.Clim.Invest.(1993)

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  • [Publications] 神崎 保: "被角血管腫と代謝異常" 皮膚病診療. (1993)

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  • [Publications] Kanzaki, T. Yokota, M. Irie,F. Hirabayashi, Y. Wang,A.M. and Desnick,R.J.: "Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum with glycopeptiduria due to deficient lysosomal alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase activity: Clinical,morphologic and biochemical studies" Arch. Dermatol. (1993)

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  • [Publications] Wang,A.M. Kanzaki, T. and Desnick, R.J.: "The molecular lesion in the alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase gene that causes angiokeratoma corporis diffusum with glycopeytiduria" J. Clin. Invest.

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  • [Publications] Kanzaki, T.: "Angiokeratoma and abnormal metabolism (Japanese)" Hifubyo-Shinryo. (1993)

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Published: 1994-03-24  

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