The complete European guidelines on phenylketonuria: diagnosis and treatment

AMJ Van Wegberg, A MacDonald, K Ahring… - Orphanet journal of rare …, 2017 - Springer
Phenylketonuria (PKU) is an autosomal recessive inborn error of phenylalanine metabolism
caused by deficiency in the enzyme phenylalanine hydroxylase that converts phenylalanine …

Genetics of phenylketonuria: then and now

N Blau - Human mutation, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
More than 950 phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene variants have been identified in
people with phenylketonuria (PKU). These vary in their consequences for the residual level …

The genetic landscape and epidemiology of phenylketonuria

A Hillert, Y Anikster, A Belanger-Quintana… - The American Journal of …, 2020 - cell.com
Phenylketonuria (PKU), caused by variants in the phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene, is
the most common autosomal-recessive Mendelian phenotype of amino acid metabolism. We …

[HTML][HTML] Amino acid disorders

E Aliu, S Kanungo, GL Arnold - Annals of translational medicine, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Amino acids serve as key building blocks and as an energy source for cell repair, survival,
regeneration and growth. Each amino acid has an amino group, a carboxylic acid, and a …

Genetic etiology and clinical challenges of phenylketonuria

NA Elhawary, IA AlJahdali, IS Abumansour… - Human genomics, 2022 - Springer
This review discusses the epidemiology, pathophysiology, genetic etiology, and
management of phenylketonuria (PKU). PKU, an autosomal recessive disease, is an inborn …

A noncoding RNA modulator potentiates phenylalanine metabolism in mice

Y Li, Z Tan, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, Q Hu, K Liang, Y Jun… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The functional role of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in inherited metabolic disorders,
including phenylketonuria (PKU), is unknown. Here, we demonstrate that the mouse lncRNA …

Genetically engineered bacterium: Principles, practices, and prospects

Y Liu, J Feng, H Pan, X Zhang, Y Zhang - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Advances in synthetic biology and the clinical application of bacteriotherapy enable the use
of genetically engineered bacteria (GEB) to combat various diseases. GEB act as a small …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of neuropsychiatric symptoms and executive functioning in adults with phenylketonuria

DA Bilder, JK Noel, ER Baker, W Irish… - Developmental …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This systematic review and meta-analysis (MA) investigates the impact of elevated blood
phenylalanine (Phe) on neuropsychiatric symptoms in adults with phenylketonuria (PKU) …

Host conditioning and rejection monitoring in hepatocyte transplantation in humans

KA Soltys, K Setoyama, EN Tafaleng, AS Gutiérrez… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Hepatocyte transplantation partially corrects genetic disorders and has
been associated anecdotally with reversal of acute liver failure. Monitoring for graft function …

Phenylketonuria: current treatments and future developments

U Lichter-Konecki, J Vockley - Drugs, 2019 - Springer
Phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) deficiency is an inborn error of metabolism that results in
elevated phenylalanine levels in blood. The classical form of the disease with phenylalanine …