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A patient with molybdenum cofactor deficiency (producing the biochemical abnormalities associated with deficiencies of sulphite oxidase and xanthine dehydrogenase) clinically expressed Marfan-like habitus with dislocated lenses, vertebral abnormality, learning disability, moderate hemiplegia, increased medial lentiform MRI signal and intermittent microscopic haematuria.S-Sulphocysteine was present in plasma and urine, and the oxidized derivative of a molybdopterin precursor (precursor Z), together with xanthine and hypoxanthine, were elevated in urine. Blood uric acid was <1 mg/dl, while urinary urothione was not detected. These data indicate a functionally inadequate terminal enzyme for converting precursor Z to active molybdopterin (complementation group B of general molybdenum cofactor deficiency). Although the biochemical parameters were indicative of a severe deficiency state, the patient has survived into the third decade with a less severe clinical spectrum than has generally been associated with this disease.
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Mize, C., Johnson, J.L. & Rajagopalan, K.V. Defective molybdopterin biosynthesis: clinical heterogeneity associated with molybdenum cofactor deficiency. J Inherit Metab Dis 18, 283–290 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00710416
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