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Correction of I-cell defect by hybridization with lysosomal enzyme deficient human fibroblasts. 1980

A d'Azzo, and D J Halley, and A Hoogeveen, and H Galjaard

I-cell fibroblasts with a multiple intracellular lysosomal enzyme deficiency were hybridized with cells from patients with different types of single lysosomal enzyme defects. Fusion with G(M2) gangliosidosis, type 2, (Sandhoff disease) fibroblasts resulted in a restoration of the hexosaminidase activity, in a normalization of the electrophoretic mobility of the isoenzymes, and in a decreased activity in the medium. Fusion of I-cells with fibroblasts from G(M1) gangliosidosis, type 1, led to enhancement of beta-galactosidase (beta-gal) activity. This complementation must be the result of the presence of normal polypeptide chains in I-cells, whereas the other cell types provide a factor that causes the intracellular retention of the enzymes. Restoration of beta-gal was also observed in heterokaryons after fusion of I-cells with beta-galactosidase/neuraminidase-deficient (beta-gal(-)/neur(-)) variants, indicating that the neuraminidase(s) and the posttranslational modification of beta-gal are affected in a different way in I-cell disease and in beta-gal(-)/neur(-) variants. Fusion of I-cells with mannosidosis fibroblasts resulted in a restoration of the acidic form of alpha-mannosidase and in a decrease of the extracellular activity of both this enzyme and the hexosaminidase enzyme, indicating that fusion of I-cells with different types of fibroblasts with a single lysosomal enzyme deficiency not only leads to complementation for one particular enzyme but also to a correction of the basic defect in I-cells.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008247	Lysosomes	A class of morphologically heterogeneous cytoplasmic particles in animal and plant tissues characterized by their content of hydrolytic enzymes and the structure-linked latency of these enzymes. The intracellular functions of lysosomes depend on their lytic potential. The single unit membrane of the lysosome acts as a barrier between the enzymes enclosed in the lysosome and the external substrate. The activity of the enzymes contained in lysosomes is limited or nil unless the vesicle in which they are enclosed is ruptured or undergoes MEMBRANE FUSION. (From Rieger et al., Glossary of Genetics: Classical and Molecular, 5th ed).	Autolysosome,Autolysosomes,Lysosome
D008361	Mannosidases	Glycoside hydrolases that catalyze the hydrolysis of alpha or beta linked MANNOSE.	Mannosidase
D009081	Mucolipidoses	A group of inherited metabolic diseases characterized by the accumulation of excessive amounts of acid mucopolysaccharides, sphingolipids, and/or glycolipids in visceral and mesenchymal cells. Abnormal amounts of sphingolipids or glycolipids are present in neural tissue. INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY and skeletal changes, most notably dysostosis multiplex, occur frequently. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch56, pp36-7)	Cherry Red Spot Myoclonus Syndrome,Ganglioside Sialidase Deficiency Disease,I-Cell Disease,Lipomucopolysaccharidosis,Mucolipidosis,Myoclonus Cherry Red Spot Syndrome,Pseudo-Hurler Polydystrophy,Sialidosis,Cherry Red Spot-Myoclonus Syndrome,Deficiency Disease, Ganglioside Sialidase,Glycoprotein Neuraminidase Deficiency,Inclusion Cell Disease,Mucolipidosis I,Mucolipidosis II,Mucolipidosis III,Mucolipidosis III Alpha Beta,Mucolipidosis IIIa,Mucolipidosis IV,Mucolipidosis Type 1,Mucolipidosis Type I,Mucolipidosis Type II,Mucolipidosis Type III,Mucolipidosis Type IV,Myoclonus-Cherry Red Spot Syndrome,Psuedo-Hurler Disease,Sialolipidosis,Type I Mucolipidosis,Type II Mucolipidosis,Type III Mucolipidosis,Type IV Mucolipidosis,Deficiencies, Glycoprotein Neuraminidase,Deficiency, Glycoprotein Neuraminidase,Glycoprotein Neuraminidase Deficiencies,I Cell Disease,I-Cell Diseases,Inclusion Cell Diseases,Lipomucopolysaccharidoses,Mucolipidoses, Type I,Mucolipidoses, Type II,Mucolipidoses, Type III,Mucolipidoses, Type IV,Mucolipidosis, Type I,Mucolipidosis, Type II,Mucolipidosis, Type III,Mucolipidosis, Type IV,Polydystrophy, Pseudo-Hurler,Pseudo Hurler Polydystrophy,Psuedo Hurler Disease,Psuedo-Hurler Diseases,Sialidoses,Sialolipidoses,Type I Mucolipidoses,Type II Mucolipidoses,Type III Mucolipidoses,Type IV Mucolipidoses
D002459	Cell Fusion	Fusion of somatic cells in vitro or in vivo, which results in somatic cell hybridization.	Cell Fusions,Fusion, Cell,Fusions, Cell
D002478	Cells, Cultured	Cells propagated in vitro in special media conducive to their growth. Cultured cells are used to study developmental, morphologic, metabolic, physiologic, and genetic processes, among others.	Cultured Cells,Cell, Cultured,Cultured Cell
D005347	Fibroblasts	Connective tissue cells which secrete an extracellular matrix rich in collagen and other macromolecules.	Fibroblast
D005733	Gangliosidoses	A group of autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorders marked by the accumulation of GANGLIOSIDES. They are caused by impaired enzymes or defective cofactors required for normal ganglioside degradation in the LYSOSOMES. Gangliosidoses are classified by the specific ganglioside accumulated in the defective degradation pathway.	Ganglioside Storage Diseases,Ganglioside Storage Disorders,Gangliosidosis,Ganglioside Storage Disease,Ganglioside Storage Disorder,Storage Disease, Ganglioside,Storage Diseases, Ganglioside,Storage Disorder, Ganglioside,Storage Disorders, Ganglioside
D005816	Genetic Complementation Test	A test used to determine whether or not complementation (compensation in the form of dominance) will occur in a cell with a given mutant phenotype when another mutant genome, encoding the same mutant phenotype, is introduced into that cell.	Allelism Test,Cis Test,Cis-Trans Test,Complementation Test,Trans Test,Allelism Tests,Cis Tests,Cis Trans Test,Cis-Trans Tests,Complementation Test, Genetic,Complementation Tests,Complementation Tests, Genetic,Genetic Complementation Tests,Trans Tests
D006596	Hexosaminidases	Enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of N-acylhexosamine residues in N-acylhexosamides. Hexosaminidases also act on GLUCOSIDES; GALACTOSIDES; and several OLIGOSACCHARIDES.	Galactosaminidases,Hexosaminidase,Galactosaminidase,Glucosaminidase,Glucosaminidases
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man