Enzymes Flashcards
Panacinar emphysema
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency
Zellweger disease
Pipecolate oxidase
Problem in very long chain fatty acid oxidation (peroxisomes)
Fabry’s disease
Alpha galactosidase A
Maple syrup urine disease
Alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase
Affects the branched-chain amino acids
Hurler’s disease (MPS Type 1)
Alpha-L-iduronidase
Most severe mucopolysaccharidoses
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
21-Hydroxylase
Most common cause of genital ambiguity
Hurler’s disease (MPS Type II)
Iduronate sulfatase
Milder form, X-linked
SCID
Adenosine deaminase
Problem is both humoral and cellular immunity
Also known as bubble boy disease
Smith-Lemli-Opitz Syndrome
7-Dehydrocholesterol reductase
(+) Urine sulfatide test
Metachromatic leukodystrophy
Metachromatic leukodystrophy
Aryl sulfatase
Farber’s disease
Ceramidase/Ceraminidase
Periarticular and subcutaneous swellings and progressive arthropathy pertains to
Farber’s disease
Affects the JOINTS
Homocystinuria
Cystathione synthase
Can present with subluxation of the lenses (along with Marfan’s presenting with Ectopia Lentis)
Hallevorden-Spatz Disease
Enzyme deficient: cystine dioxygenase
Other name: PKAN (Pantothenate Kinase-Associated Neurodegeneration)
Sign: Eye of the tiger sign