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Pathway Description
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Deficiency (E2)
Rattus norvegicus
Disease Pathway
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (PDH) Deficiency is an X linked disease where individuals have a reduced number of functioning PDH complexes ultimately affecting the mitochondria’s energy metabolism. In a healthy individual, PDH complex catalyzes the conversion of pyruvate to acetyl coenzyme A, therefore PDH deficiency can cause the accumulation of excess pyruvate and lactic acid. PDH deficiency presents itself in a variety of ways, however since the brain obtains most of it’s energy from aerobic oxidation of glucose, all PDH deficient individuals have some degree of neurological impairment. Other symptoms range from fatal lactic acidosis in the newborns, chronic neurodegenerative conditions, brain lesions, cerebral atrophy and much more.
Due to the fatal nature of the disease many with this condition do not live past childhood, however there are some that survive to adolescents and adulthood. Treatments have tried to minimize systemic lactic acid accumulation by feeding patients high fat/low carbohydrate diets. However, this does not reverse neurological structural damage already present and therefore does little to influence the end results.
References
Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Deficiency (E2) References
Brown GK, Otero LJ, LeGris M, Brown RM: Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency. J Med Genet. 1994 Nov;31(11):875-9.
Pubmed: 7853374
Citric Acid Cycle References
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Pon, A. et al. Pathways with PathWhiz (2015) Nucleic Acids Res. 43(Web Server issue): W552–W559.
Propagated from PW000527
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