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Structural highlights

Disease

SPTC1_HUMAN Hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type 1;Juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The disease is caused by variants affecting the gene represented in this entry. SPTLC1 variants at Ser-331 are responsible for severe hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy (HMSN) forms, whose core features are severe, diffuse muscle wasting and hypotonia, motor and sensory disturbances, foot ulcers, amputations and/or burns, joint hypermobility, cataracts and considerable growth retardation.^[1]

Function

SPTC1_HUMAN Serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT) (PubMed:19416851). The heterodimer formed with SPTLC2 or SPTLC3 constitutes the catalytic core (PubMed:19416851). The composition of the serine palmitoyltransferase (SPT) complex determines the substrate preference (PubMed:19416851). The SPTLC1-SPTLC2-SPTSSA complex shows a strong preference for C16-CoA substrate, while the SPTLC1-SPTLC3-SPTSSA isozyme uses both C14-CoA and C16-CoA as substrates, with a slight preference for C14-CoA (PubMed:19416851). The SPTLC1-SPTLC2-SPTSSB complex shows a strong preference for C18-CoA substrate, while the SPTLC1-SPTLC3-SPTSSB isozyme displays an ability to use a broader range of acyl-CoAs, without apparent preference (PubMed:19416851). Required for adipocyte cell viability and metabolic homeostasis (By similarity).[UniProtKB:O35704]^[2]

See Also

• Serine palmitoyltransferase 3D structures

References

1. ↑ Auer-Grumbach M, Bode H, Pieber TR, Schabhüttl M, Fischer D, Seidl R, Graf E, Wieland T, Schuh R, Vacariu G, Grill F, Timmerman V, Strom TM, Hornemann T. Mutations at Ser331 in the HSN type I gene SPTLC1 are associated with a distinct syndromic phenotype. Eur J Med Genet. 2013 May;56(5):266-9. PMID:23454272 doi:10.1016/j.ejmg.2013.02.002
2. ↑ Han G, Gupta SD, Gable K, Niranjanakumari S, Moitra P, Eichler F, Brown RH Jr, Harmon JM, Dunn TM. Identification of small subunits of mammalian serine palmitoyltransferase that confer distinct acyl-CoA substrate specificities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 May 19;106(20):8186-91. PMID:19416851 doi:10.1073/pnas.0811269106