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Neuronopathic juvenile glucosylceramidosis due to sap-C deficiency: clinical course, neuropathology and brain lipid composition in this Gaucher disease variant.

Abstract：

:Glucosylceramide lipidosis results from a defective lysosomal degradation of this glycolipid. Lipid degradation is controlled by two components, the enzyme beta-glucocerebrosidase and a sphingolipid activator protein. While most Gaucher cases are due to mutations within the gene that codes for the lysosomal enzyme, only two patients have been described with normal enzyme levels and mutations in the gene for the sphingolipid activator protein C (sap-C). Here we present the detailed neurological manifestations, neuropathological findings and brain lipid composition in one sap-C-deficient patient. The patient was an 8-year-old boy who presented with transient losses of consciousness, myoclonic jerks and generalized seizures resistant to all antiepileptic drugs. He developed progressive horizontal ophthalmoplegia, pyramidal and cerebellar signs, and died at the age of 15.5 years. Neuropathological studies demonstrated neuronal cell loss and neuronophagia, massive intraneuronal lipid storage and lack of perivascular Gaucher cells. Electron microscopy examination showed different types of storage including lipofuscin granules as well as the cytosomes with parallel arrays of bilayers that are assumed to be formed by stored lipids. General brain lipid composition did not show a remarkable increase or loss of any of the major lipid fractions but the glucosylceramide concentration in the cortex of several anatomical regions showed a striking increase. Fatty acid composition of the ceramide moiety clearly suggests that gangliosides are the main precursors in the cerebral cortex, while it implies an additional and distinct source in the cerebellum. Studying the phenotypic consequences of mutant sphingolipid activator proteins is critical to a better understanding of the physiological significance of these proteins.

journal_name

Acta Neuropathol

journal_title

Acta neuropathologica

authors

Pàmpols T,Pineda M,Girós ML,Ferrer I,Cusi V,Chabás A,Sanmarti FX,Vanier MT,Christomanou H

doi

10.1007/s004010050960

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Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-01-01 00:00:00

pages

91-7

issue

eissn

0001-6322

issn

1432-0533

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Neuronopathic juvenile glucosylceramidosis due to sap-C deficiency: clinical course, neuropathology and brain lipid composition in this Gaucher disease variant.