3rmu

Structural highlights

Disease

[MCEE_HUMAN] Vitamin B12-unresponsive methylmalonic acidemia. Methylmalonyl-CoA epimerase deficiency (MCEED) [MIM:251120]: Autosomal recessive inborn error of amino acid metabolism, involving valine, threonine, isoleucine and methionine. This organic aciduria may present in the neonatal period with life-threatening metabolic acidosis, hyperammonemia, feeding difficulties, pancytopenia and coma. Note=The disease is caused by mutations affecting the gene represented in this entry.^[1]

References

1. ↑ Bikker H, Bakker HD, Abeling NG, Poll-The BT, Kleijer WJ, Rosenblatt DS, Waterham HR, Wanders RJ, Duran M. A homozygous nonsense mutation in the methylmalonyl-CoA epimerase gene (MCEE) results in mild methylmalonic aciduria. Hum Mutat. 2006 Jul;27(7):640-3. PMID:16752391 doi:10.1002/humu.20373