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- Title
Guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency diagnosed by proton NMR spectroscopy of body fluids.
- Authors
Engelke, Udo F. H.; Tassini, Maria; Hayek, Joseph; de Vries, Maaike; Bilos, Appie; Vivi, Antonio; Valensin, Gianni; Buoni, Sabrina; Zannolli, Raffaella; Brussel, Wim; Kremer, Berry; Salomons, Gajja S.; Veendrick-Meekes, Monique J. B. M.; Kluijtmans, Leo A. J.; Morava, Éva; Wevers, Ron A.
- Abstract
In patients with guanidinoacetate methyltransferase (GAMT) deficiency several parameters may point towards the diagnosis of GAMT deficiency. These include the low levels of creatine and creatinine in urine, the high concentration of guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) in urine and the low levels of creatine and creatinine in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). In this study, body fluids from 10 GAMT deficient patients were analysed using 1H NMR spectroscopy. The urine 1D 1H NMR spectra of all the patients showed a doublet resonance at 3.98 ppm (pH 2.50) derived from GAA present in high concentration. For this compound, a good recovery and good correlation was found between an LC-MS/MS method and 1H NMR spectroscopy. In CSF NMR spectra of these patients, the singlet resonances of creatine and creatinine (3.05 and 3.13 ppm, respectively) were absent (normally always present in 1H NMR spectra of CSF). Due to overlap by other resonances, the doublet of GAA could not be observed. Our data demonstrate that 1H NMR spectroscopy of urine and CSF can be used to diagnose patients with GAMT deficiency. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Publication
NMR in Biomedicine, 2009, Vol 22, Issue 5, p538
- ISSN
0952-3480
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/nbm.1367