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Progress in the understanding and treatment of Fabry disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fabry disease is caused by ?-galactosidase A deficiency. Substrates of this lysosomal enzyme accumulate, resulting in cellular dysfunction. Patients experience neuropathic pain, kidney failure, heart disease, and strokes.

Scope of review

The clinical picture and molecular features of Fabry disease are described, along with updates on disease mechanisms, animal models, and therapies.

Major conclusions

How the accumulation of ?-galactosidase A substrates, mainly glycosphingolipids, leads to organ damage is incompletely understood. Enzyme replacement and chaperone therapies are clinically available to patients, while substrate reduction, mRNA-based, and gene therapies are on the horizon. Animal models exist to optimize these therapies and elucidate disease mechanisms for novel treatments.

General significance

Recent newborn screening studies demonstrate that Fabry disease is the most common lysosomal storage disease. As many countries now include Fabry disease in their screening panels, the number of identified patients is expected to increase significantly. Better knowledge of disease pathogenesis is needed to improve treatment options.

SUBMITTER: Miller JJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6981246 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Progress in the understanding and treatment of Fabry disease.

Miller James J JJ Kanack Adam J AJ Dahms Nancy M NM

Biochimica et biophysica acta. General subjects 20190914 1

<h4>Background</h4>Fabry disease is caused by α-galactosidase A deficiency. Substrates of this lysosomal enzyme accumulate, resulting in cellular dysfunction. Patients experience neuropathic pain, kidney failure, heart disease, and strokes.<h4>Scope of review</h4>The clinical picture and molecular features of Fabry disease are described, along with updates on disease mechanisms, animal models, and therapies.<h4>Major conclusions</h4>How the accumulation of α-galactosidase A substrates, mainly gl ...[more]

PMID: 31526868

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Project description:Fabry disease (FD) is a progressive, X-linked inherited disorder of glycosphingolipid metabolism due to deficient or absent lysosomal α-galactosidase A activity. FD is pan-ethnic and the reported annual incidence of 1 in 100,000 may underestimate the true prevalence of the disease. Classically affected hemizygous males, with no residual α-galactosidase A activity may display all the characteristic neurological (pain), cutaneous (angiokeratoma), renal (proteinuria, kidney failure), cardiovascular (cardiomyopathy, arrhythmia), cochleo-vestibular and cerebrovascular (transient ischemic attacks, strokes) signs of the disease while heterozygous females have symptoms ranging from very mild to severe. Deficient activity of lysosomal α-galactosidase A results in progressive accumulation of globotriaosylceramide within lysosomes, believed to trigger a cascade of cellular events. Demonstration of marked α-galactosidase A deficiency is the definitive method for the diagnosis of hemizygous males. Enzyme analysis may occasionnally help to detect heterozygotes but is often inconclusive due to random X-chromosomal inactivation so that molecular testing (genotyping) of females is mandatory. In childhood, other possible causes of pain such as rheumatoid arthritis and 'growing pains' must be ruled out. In adulthood, multiple sclerosis is sometimes considered. Prenatal diagnosis, available by determination of enzyme activity or DNA testing in chorionic villi or cultured amniotic cells is, for ethical reasons, only considered in male fetuses. Pre-implantation diagnosis is possible. The existence of atypical variants and the availability of a specific therapy singularly complicate genetic counseling. A disease-specific therapeutic option - enzyme replacement therapy using recombinant human α-galactosidase A - has been recently introduced and its long term outcome is currently still being investigated. Conventional management consists of pain relief with analgesic drugs, nephroprotection (angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptors blockers) and antiarrhythmic agents, whereas dialysis or renal transplantation are available for patients experiencing end-stage renal failure. With age, progressive damage to vital organ systems develops and at some point, organs may start to fail in functioning. End-stage renal disease and life-threatening cardiovascular or cerebrovascular complications limit life-expectancy of untreated males and females with reductions of 20 and 10 years, respectively, as compared to the general population. While there is increasing evidence that long-term enzyme therapy can halt disease progression, the importance of adjunctive therapies should be emphasized and the possibility of developing an oral therapy drives research forward into active site specific chaperones.

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Progress in the understanding and treatment of Fabry disease.

Background

Scope of review

Major conclusions

General significance

Publications

Progress in the understanding and treatment of Fabry disease.

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