The critical role of psychosine in screening, diagnosis, and monitoring of Krabbe disease

PURPOSE: Newborn screening (NBS) for Krabbe disease (KD) is performed by measurement of galactocerebrosidase (GALC) activity as the primary test. This revealed that GALC activity has poor specificity for KD. Psychosine (PSY) was proposed as a disease marker useful to reduce the false positive rate for NBS and for disease monitoring. We report a highly sensitive PSY assay that allows identification of KD patients with minimal PSY elevations.

METHODS: PSY was extracted from dried blood spots or erythrocytes with methanol containing d5-PSY as internal standard, and measured by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

RESULTS: Analysis of PSY in samples from controls (N = 209), GALC pseudodeficiency carriers (N = 55), GALC pathogenic variant carriers (N = 27), patients with infantile KD (N = 26), and patients with late-onset KD (N = 11) allowed for the development of an effective laboratory screening and diagnostic algorithm. Additional longitudinal measurements were used to track therapeutic efficacy of hematopoietic stem cell transplantion (HSCT).

CONCLUSION: This study supports PSY quantitation as a critical component of NBS for KD. It helps to differentiate infantile from later onset KD variants, as well as from GALC variant and pseudodeficiency carriers. Additionally, this study provides further data that PSY measurement can be useful to monitor KD progression before and after treatment.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 22(2020), 6 vom: 17. Juni, Seite 1108-1118

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guenzel, Adam J [VerfasserIn]
Turgeon, Coleman T [VerfasserIn]
Nickander, Kim K [VerfasserIn]
White, Amy L [VerfasserIn]
Peck, Dawn S [VerfasserIn]
Pino, Gisele B [VerfasserIn]
Studinski, April L [VerfasserIn]
Prasad, Vinod K [VerfasserIn]
Kurtzberg, Joanne [VerfasserIn]
Escolar, Maria L [VerfasserIn]
Lasio, Maria Laura Duque [VerfasserIn]
Pellegrino, Joan E [VerfasserIn]
Sakonju, Ai [VerfasserIn]
Hickey, Rachel E [VerfasserIn]
Shallow, Natalie M [VerfasserIn]
Ream, Margie A [VerfasserIn]
Orsini, Joseph J [VerfasserIn]
Gelb, Michael H [VerfasserIn]
Raymond, Kimiyo [VerfasserIn]
Gavrilov, Dimitar K [VerfasserIn]
Oglesbee, Devin [VerfasserIn]
Rinaldo, Piero [VerfasserIn]
Tortorelli, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
Matern, Dietrich [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

2238-90-6
Biomarker
Dried blood spot
EC 3.2.1.46
Galactosylceramidase
Journal Article
Krabbe disease
Newborn screening
Psychosine

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Date Completed 27.04.2021

Date Revised 10.02.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41436-020-0764-y

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM306823926