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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
Volume 87, Issue 5, Pages 713-720Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.10.008
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Excessive chloride secretion in weat (hyperchlorhidrosis), leading to a positive sweat test, is most commonly indicative of cystic fibrosis yet is found also in conjunction with various metabolic endocrine, and dermatological disorders There is conflicting evidence regarding the existence of autosomal recessive hyperchlorhidrosis We now describe a consanguineous Israeli Bedouin kindred with autosomal recessive hyperchlorhidrosis whose sole symptoms are visible salt precipitates after sweating, a preponderance to hyponatremic dehydration, and poor feeding and slow weight gain at infancy Through genome wide linkage analysis, we demonstrate that the phenotype is due to a homozygous mutation in CA 12, encoding carbonic anhydrase XII The mutant (c 427G>A [p Glu143Lys]) protein showed 71% activity of the wild type enzyme for catalyzing the CO2 hydration to bicarbonate and H+, and it bound the clinically used sulfonamide inhibitor acetazolamide with high affinity (K-i of 10 nM) Unlike the wild type enzyme, which is not inhibited by chloride, bromide, or iodide (K(i)s of 73-215 mM) the mutant is inhibited in the submicromolar range by these anions (K(i)s of 0 37-0 73 mM)
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