Biochemical signatures mimicking multiple carboxylase deficiency in children with mutations in MT-ATP6.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Identifier
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2018.01.001
Abstract
Elevations of specific acylcarnitines in blood reflect carboxylase deficiencies, and have utility in newborn screening for life-threatening organic acidemias and other inherited metabolic diseases. In this report, we describe a newly-identified association of biochemical features of multiple carboxylase deficiency in individuals harboring mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in MT-ATP6 and in whom organic acidemias and multiple carboxylase deficiencies were excluded. Using retrospective chart review, we identified eleven individuals with abnormally elevated propionylcarnitine (C3) or hydroxyisovalerylcarnitine (C5OH) with mutations in MT-ATP6, most commonly m.8993T>G in high heteroplasmy or homoplasmy. Most patients were ascertained on newborn screening; most had normal enzymatic or molecular genetic testing to exclude biotinidase and holocarboxylase synthetase deficiencies. MT-ATP6 is associated with some cases of Leigh disease; clinical outcomes in our cohort ranged from death from neurodegenerative disease in early childhood to clinically and developmentally normal after several years of follow-up. These cases expand the biochemical phenotype associated with MT-ATP6 mutations, especially m.8993T>G, to include acylcarnitine abnormalities mimicking carboxylase deficiency states. Clinicians should be aware of this association and its implications for newborn screening, and consider mtDNA sequencing in patients exhibiting similar acylcarnitine abnormalities that are biotin-unresponsive and in whom other enzymatic deficiencies have been excluded.
Journal Title
Mitochondrion
Volume
44
First Page
58
Last Page
64
MeSH Keywords
Adolescent; Carnitine; Child; Child, Preschool; Cohort Studies; Female; Genetic Testing; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Mitochondrial Proton-Translocating ATPases; Multiple Carboxylase Deficiency; Mutation; Retrospective Studies; Young Adult
Keywords
Inherited metabolic diseases; Leigh disease; Mitochondrial disease; Newborn screening; Organic acidemias; mtDNA
Recommended Citation
Larson AA, Balasubramaniam S, Christodoulou J, et al. Biochemical signatures mimicking multiple carboxylase deficiency in children with mutations in MT-ATP6. Mitochondrion. 2019;44:58-64. doi:10.1016/j.mito.2018.01.001
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