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Disorders of Glycolysis and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway

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Inborn Metabolic Diseases

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Because glycolysis is the most important source of energy in erythrocytes and in some types of skeletal muscle fibres, inherited diseases of glycolysis are mainly characterized by haemolytic anaemia and/or metabolic myopathy. Ten inborn errors of the glycolytic pathway are known, all inherited as an autosomal-recessive trait except the X-linked Phospho-Glycerate-Kinase and Glycerol kinase deficiencies. Hexokinase (HK), glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (GPI) and pyruvate kinase (PKD) deficiencies, cause severe haemolytic anaemia. As these are exclusively haematological disorders they are not discussed further. Muscle phospho-fructo-kinase (PFKM), aldolase A, triosephosphate isomerase (TPI) and phospho-glycerate-kinase (PGK) deficiencies are characterized by haemolytic anaemia alone or coupled with neurological disease and/or myopathy. Phosphoglycerate mutase (PGAM), enolase and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) deficiencies present with a purely myopathic syndrome characterized by exercise induced cramps and myoglobinuria. Glycerol kinase deficiency (GKD) is an X-linked disorder that is either an isolated condition presenting with hypoglycaemia and acidosis or part of a contiguous gene deletion where it also associated with congenital adrenal hypoplasia and/or Duchenne muscular dystrophy.Glucose-6-phosphate can also be also formed by the conversion of the glycogen-derived glucose1-phosphate, reaction catalysed by phosphoglucomutase (PGM). PGM1 deficiency is a congenital disorder of glycosylation CDG.

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Wamelink, M.M., Valayannopoulos, V., Garavaglia, B. (2016). Disorders of Glycolysis and the Pentose Phosphate Pathway. In: Saudubray, JM., Baumgartner, M., Walter, J. (eds) Inborn Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49771-5_7

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