Recent advances on porphyria genetics: Inheritance, penetrance & molecular heterogeneity, including new modifying/causative genes

M Yasuda, B Chen, RJ Desnick - Molecular genetics and metabolism, 2019 - Elsevier
The inborn errors of heme biosynthesis, the Porphyrias, include eight major disorders
resulting from loss-of-function (LOF) or gain-of-function (GOF) mutations in eight of the nine …

Acute intermittent porphyria: an overview of therapy developments and future perspectives focusing on stabilisation of HMBS and proteostasis regulators

HJ Bustad, JP Kallio, M Vorland, V Fiorentino… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is an autosomal dominant inherited disease with low
clinical penetrance, caused by mutations in the hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS) …

[HTML][HTML] Oral nutritional supplement with β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB) improves nutrition, physical performance and ameliorates intramuscular adiposity in pre …

LN Peng, YC Cheng, PC Yu, WJ Lee, MH Lin… - The Journal of nutrition …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives Supplementation of high protein oral nutrition shakes supplemented with β-
hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HP-HMB) has been shown to improve muscle mass, muscle …

Systematically testing human HMBS missense variants to reveal mechanism and pathogenic variation

W van Loggerenberg, S Sowlati-Hashjin, J Weile… - The American Journal of …, 2023 - cell.com
Defects in hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS) can cause acute intermittent porphyria
(AIP), an acute neurological disease. Although sequencing-based diagnosis can be …

Recent advances in the epidemiology and genetics of acute intermittent porphyria

L Ma, Y Tian, C Peng, Y Zhang… - Intractable & Rare …, 2020 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a dominant inherited disorder with a low penetrance that
is caused by mutations in the gene coding for hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS) …

Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate and sarcopenia: from biological plausibility to clinical evidence

F Landi, R Calvani, A Picca… - Current Opinion in Clinical …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate and sarcopenia: from biolog... : Current Opinion in Clinical
Nutrition & Metabolic Care Beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate and sarcopenia: from biological …

HMBS is the most suitable reference gene for RT-qPCR in human HCC tissues and blood samples

HR Ahn, GO Baek, MG Yoon, JA Son… - Oncology …, 2021 - spandidos-publications.com
Reverse transcription-quantitative (RT-q) PCR is the most feasible and useful technique for
identifying and evaluating cancer biomarkers; however, the method requires suitable …

Uncovering the Kinetic Characteristics and Degradation Preference of PROTAC Systems with Advanced Theoretical Analyses

R Tang, Z Wang, S Xiang, L Wang, Y Yu, Q Wang… - JACS Au, 2023 - ACS Publications
Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs), which can selectively induce the degradation of
target proteins, represent an attractive technology in drug discovery. A large number of …

Screening of reference genes for RT-qPCR in chicken adipose tissue and adipocytes

W Na, Y Wang, P Gong, X Zhang, K Zhang… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR is the most commonly used method to
detect gene expression levels. In experiments, it is often necessary to correct and …

[HTML][HTML] Acute intermittent porphyria: prevalence of pathogenic HMBS variants in China, and epidemiological survey in Hebei Province, China

L Ma, Y Tian, X Qi, P Li, J Li, Q Teng, Y Ma… - Annals of Translational …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) is a rare inherited disorder with extremely low
prevalence. Early detection of patients with potential pathogenic hydroxymethylbilane …