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  • Title: GTP-cyclohydrolase I gene mutations in hereditary progressive amd dopa-responsive dystonia.
    Author: Furukawa Y, Shimadzu M, Rajput AH, Shimizu Y, Tagawa T, Mori H, Yokochi M, Narabayashi H, Hornykiewicz O, Mizuno Y, Kish SJ.
    Journal: Ann Neurol; 1996 May; 39(5):609-17. PubMed ID: 8619546.
    Abstract:
    Recently, mutations of the GTP-cyclohydrolase I (GTP-CH I) gene, which catalyzes the first step in the tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) biosynthesis, were discovered in Japanese patients with hereditary progressive dystonia/dopa-responsive dystonia (HPD/DRD). However, it has not been confirmed that non-Japanese patients also contain mutations in the same gene, or whether these mutations are specific to HPD/DRD. In this study, two novel nonsense mutations in exon I of the GTP-CH I gene and a new mutation at the splice acceptor site of intron I were identified in an autopsied case of English-Irish descent and 2 Japanese patients with HPD/DRD. In the latter, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) neopterin levels (which may reflect the GTP-CH I activity in the brain) were reduced to 18% and 37% of controls. A therapeutic trial of oral BH4 was ineffective, however, in a genetically proven patient. In contrast, no mutations in any exons of the GTP-CH I gene were found in 2 patients with early-onset parkinsonism with dystonia (EOP-D) who developed dopa-responsive parkinsonism and dystonia at 6 and 8 years old, respectively. Neopterin levels in CSF were well preserved in 6 EOP-D patients. These data suggest that, among patients of different racial backgrounds, the pathogenesis of HPD/DRD, unlike EOP-D, involves partial reduction of the brain GTP-CH I activity consequent to mutations in the GTP-CH I gene. Measurement of CSF neopterin concentration may be useful for the differential diagnosis between HPD/DRD and EOP-D.
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