Acylcarnitines: nomenclature, biomarkers, therapeutic potential, drug targets, and clinical trials

M Dambrova, M Makrecka-Kuka, J Kuka… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Acylcarnitines are fatty acid metabolites that play important roles in many cellular energy
metabolism pathways. They have historically been used as important diagnostic markers for …

Succinyl-CoA synthetase dysfunction as a mechanism of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy: more than just an oxidative energy deficit

MS Lancaster, BH Graham - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biallelic pathogenic variants in subunits of succinyl-CoA synthetase (SCS), a tricarboxylic
acid (TCA) cycle enzyme, are associated with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy in humans …

NADP+-IDH mutations promote hypersuccinylation that impairs mitochondria respiration and induces apoptosis resistance

F Li, X He, D Ye, Y Lin, H Yu, C Yao, L Huang, J Zhang… - Molecular cell, 2015 - cell.com
Elucidating the tumorigenic mechanism of R-2-hydroxyglutarate (R-2HG) is critical for
determining how NADP+-IDH mutations cause cancer. Here we report that R-2HG induces …

Succinate-CoA ligase deficiency due to mutations in SUCLA2 and SUCLG1: phenotype and genotype correlations in 71 patients

R Carrozzo, D Verrigni, M Rasmussen… - Journal of inherited …, 2016 - Springer
Background The encephalomyopathic mtDNA depletion syndrome with methylmalonic
aciduria is associated with deficiency of succinate-CoA ligase, caused by mutations in …

Loss of succinyl-CoA synthetase in mouse forebrain results in hypersuccinylation with perturbed neuronal transcription and metabolism

MS Lancaster, B Kim, EH Doud, MD Tate, AD Sharify… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Lysine succinylation is a subtype of protein acylation associated with metabolic regulation of
succinyl-CoA in the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Deficiency of succinyl-CoA synthetase (SCS) …

Two transgenic mouse models for β-subunit components of succinate-CoA ligase yielding pleiotropic metabolic alterations

G Kacso, D Ravasz, J Doczi, B Németh… - Biochemical …, 2016 - portlandpress.com
Succinate-CoA ligase (SUCL) is a heterodimer enzyme composed of Suclg1 α-subunit and
a substrate-specific Sucla2 or Suclg2 β-subunit yielding ATP or GTP, respectively. In …

Bioinformatic prediction of putative conveyers of O-GlcNAc transferase intellectual disability

CW Mitchell, I Czajewski, DMF van Aalten - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
Protein O-GlcNAcylation is a dynamic posttranslational modification that is catalyzed by the
enzyme O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) and is essential for neurodevelopment and postnatal …

Structural basis for the binding of succinate to succinyl-CoA synthetase

J Huang, ME Fraser - Acta Crystallographica Section D: Structural …, 2016 - journals.iucr.org
Succinyl-CoA synthetase catalyzes the only step in the citric acid cycle that provides
substrate-level phosphorylation. Although the binding sites for the substrates CoA …

Succinyl-CoA synthetase (SUCLA2) deficiency in two siblings with impaired activity of other mitochondrial oxidative enzymes in skeletal muscle without mitochondrial …

X Huang, JK Bedoyan, D Demirbas, DJ Harris… - Molecular genetics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Mutations in SUCLA2 result in succinyl-CoA ligase (ATP-forming) or succinyl-CoA
synthetase (ADP-forming)(A-SCS) deficiency, a mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid cycle …

Fatty acid chain elongation in palmitate-perfused working rat heart

J Kerner, PE Minkler, EJ Lesnefsky… - Journal Of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
Rat hearts were perfused with [1, 2, 3, 4-13 C 4] palmitic acid (M+ 4), and the isotopic
patterns of myocardial acylcarnitines and acyl-CoAs were analyzed using ultra-HPLC …