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Disease
ACY2_HUMAN Defects in ASPA are the cause of Canavan disease (CAND) [MIM:271900; also known as spongy degeneration of the brain. CAND is a rare neurodegenerative condition of infancy or childhood characterized by white matter vacuolization and demeylination that gives rise to a spongy appearance. The clinical features are onset in early infancy, atonia of neck muscles, hypotonia, hyperextension of legs and flexion of arms, blindness, severe mental defect, megalocephaly, and death by 18 months on the average.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]
Function
ACY2_HUMAN Catalyzes the deacetylation of N-acetylaspartic acid (NAA) to produce acetate and L-aspartate. NAA occurs in high concentration in brain and its hydrolysis NAA plays a significant part in the maintenance of intact white matter. In other tissues it act as a scavenger of NAA from body fluids.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Canavan disease is a fatal neurological disorder caused by the malfunctioning of a single metabolic enzyme, aspartoacylase, that catalyzes the deacetylation of N-acetyl- l-aspartate to produce l-aspartate and acetate. The structure of human brain aspartoacylase has been determined in complex with a stable tetrahedral intermediate analogue, N-phosphonomethyl- l-aspartate. This potent inhibitor forms multiple interactions between each of its heteroatoms and the substrate binding groups arrayed within the active site. The binding of the catalytic intermediate analogue induces the conformational ordering of several substrate binding groups, thereby setting up the active site for catalysis. The highly ordered binding of this inhibitor has allowed assignments to be made for substrate binding groups and provides strong support for a carboxypeptidase-type mechanism for the hydrolysis of the amide bond of the substrate, N-acetyl- l-aspartate.
Examination of the Mechanism of Human Brain Aspartoacylase through the Binding of an Intermediate Analogue(,).,Le Coq J, Pavlovsky A, Malik R, Sanishvili R, Xu C, Viola RE Biochemistry. 2008 Mar 18;47(11):3484-92. Epub 2008 Feb 23. PMID:18293939[13]
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See Also
References
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- ↑ Le Coq J, Pavlovsky A, Malik R, Sanishvili R, Xu C, Viola RE. Examination of the Mechanism of Human Brain Aspartoacylase through the Binding of an Intermediate Analogue(,). Biochemistry. 2008 Mar 18;47(11):3484-92. Epub 2008 Feb 23. PMID:18293939 doi:10.1021/bi702400x
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