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SUBMITTER: Shafqat N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3825524 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shafqat Naeem N Kavanagh Kate L KL Sass Jörn Oliver JO Christensen Ernst E Fukao Toshiyuki T Lee Wen Hwa WH Oppermann Udo U Yue Wyatt W WW
Journal of inherited metabolic disease 20130219 6
Succinyl-CoA:3-ketoacid CoA transferase (SCOT) deficiency is a rare inherited metabolic disorder of ketone metabolism, characterized by ketoacidotic episodes and often permanent ketosis. To date there are ~20 disease-associated alleles on the OXCT1 gene that encodes the mitochondrial enzyme SCOT. SCOT catalyzes the first, rate-limiting step of ketone body utilization in peripheral tissues, by transferring a CoA moiety from succinyl-CoA to form acetoacetyl-CoA, for entry into the tricarboxylic ac ...[more]