Browse > Article

A Case of Citrullinemia Type 1 in ASS 1 Mutation  

Yim, Dae kyoon (Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Huh, Rimm (Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Kwun, Younghee (Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Lee, Jieun (Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Cho, Sung Yoon (Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Park, Hyung Doo (Department of Laboratory Medicine and Genetics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Jin, Dong-Kyu (Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine)
Publication Information
Journal of The Korean Society of Inherited Metabolic disease / v.15, no.1, 2015 , pp. 29-34 More about this Journal
Abstract
Citrullinemia type1 is an autosomal recessive disorder of the urea cycle characterized by neonatal or late onset of hyperammonemia caused by a deficiency of the enzyme argininosuccinate synthetase (ASS). An ASS1 deficiency demonstrates fatal clinical manifestations that are characterized by the neonatal metabolic coma and early death when untreated. It causes a broad spectrum of effects, ranging from a mild disorder to a severe mental retardation, epilepsy, neurologic deficits. An acute neonatal form is the most common. Infants are normal at birth followed by an acute illness characterized by vomiting, lethargy, seizures and coma. These medical problems are life-threatening in many cases. A later onset form is less frequent and may be milder than the neonatal form. This later-onset form is associated with severe headaches, visual dysfunction, motor dysfunction, and lack of energy. Citrullinemia type1 is caused by mutations in the ASS1 gene located on chromosome 9q34.1 that encodes argininosuccinate synthetase, the third enzyme of the urea cycle catalyzing the formation of argininosuccinic acid from citrulline and aspartic acid. The enzyme is distributed in tissues including liver and fibroblasts. This mutation leads to hyperammonemia, arginine deficiency and elevated citrulline level. In the urea cycle, argininosuccinate synthetase catalyses the conversion of citrulline and aspartate to argininosuccinate.. Here, we describe a female newborn patient with lethargy, rigidity and hyperammonemia who was diagnosed as citrullinemia type1 with a c.[421-2A>G], c.[1128-6_1188dup] mutation.
Keywords
Citrullinemia type1; ASS1 enzyme; Citrullin;
Citations & Related Records
Times Cited By KSCI : 1  (Citation Analysis)
연도 인용수 순위
1 Brechbuhler T, Colombo JP, Signer E, Wick H. Citrullinemia in a newborn infant. Monogr Hum Genet 1972;6:152.   DOI
2 Haberle J, Vilaseca MA, Meli C, Rigoldi M, Jara F, Vecchio I, et al. First manifestation of citrullinemia type I as differential diagnosis to postpartum psychosis in the puerperal period. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2010;149:228-9.   DOI
3 Karnik D, Thomas N, Jacob J, Oommen A. Hyperammonemia with citrullinemia. Indian Pediatr 2004;41:842-4.
4 Marquis-Nicholson R, Glamuzina E, Prosser D, Wilson C, Love DR. Citrullinemia type I: molecular screening of the ASS1 gene by exonic sequencing and targeted mutation analysis. Genet Mol Res 2010;9:1483-9.   DOI
5 Woo HI, Ki CS, Lee SY, Kim JW, Song J, Jin DK, et al. Mutation spectrum of the ASS1 gene in Korean patients with citrullinemia type I. Clin Biochem 2013;46:209-13.   DOI
6 Wu TF, Liu YP, Li XY, Wang Q, Song JQ, Yang YL. Prenatal diagnosis of citrullinemia type 1: a Chinese family with a novel mutation of the ASS1 gene. Brain Dev 2014;36:264-7.   DOI
7 Cho JH, Kim CH, Lee KH, Jeon IK, Kim JM, Kang BM. The first successful live birth following preimplantation genetic diagnosis using PCR for type 1 citrullinemia. Obstet Gynecol Sci 2014;57:244-7.   DOI
8 Ghisolfi J, Augier D, Martinez J, Barthe P, Andrieu P, Besse P, et al. [Neonatal form of citrullinemia with a rapid fatal course]. Pediatrie 1972;27:55-9.
9 Quinonez SC, Thoene JG. Citrullinemia Type I. In: Pagon RA, Adam MP, Ardinger HH, Bird TD, Dolan CR, Fong CT, et al., editors. GeneReviews (R). Seattle (WA), 1993.
10 Go H, Imamura T, Hashimoto K, Ogasawara K, Sakamoto O, Takubo N, et al. Successful prospective management of neonatal citrullinemia. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab 2012;25:371-3.
11 Wen P, Chen Z, Wang G, Liu X, Chen L, Chen S, et al. [Genetic analysis of ASS1, ASL and SLC 25A13 in citrullinemia patients]. Zhonghua Yi Xue Yi Chuan Xue Za Zhi 2014;31:268-71.
12 Goldblum OM, Brusilow SW, Maldonado YA, Farmer ER. Neonatal citrullinemia associated with cutaneous manifestations and arginine deficiency. J Am Acad Dermatol 1986;14:321-6.   DOI
13 Melnyk AR, Matalon R, Henry BW, Zeller WP, Lange C. Prospective management of a child with neonatal citrullinemia. J Pediatr 1993;122:96-8.   DOI
14 Kim IS, Ki CS, Kim JW, Lee M, Jin DK, Lee SY. Characterization of late-onset citrullinemia 1 in a Korean patient: confirmation by argininosuccinate synthetase gene mutation analysis. J Biochem Mol Biol 2006;39:400-5.   DOI
15 Gay C, Tronchon H, Divry P, Teyssier G, Freycon MT, Freycon F. [Citrullinemia: management and clinical course. Apropos of a familial case]. Pediatrie 1993;48:894-7.