Quantification of the enzyme activities of iduronate-2-sulfatase, N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfatase and N-acetylgalactosamine-4-sulfatase using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

ABSTRACT: Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a genetic disorder characterized by the accumulation of glycosaminoglycans in the body. Of the multiple MPS disease subtypes, several are caused by defects in sulfatases. Specifically, a defect in iduronate-2-sulfatase (ID2S) leads to MPS II, whereas N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfatase (GALN) and N-acetylgalactosamine-4-sulfatase (ARSB) defects relate to MPS IVA and MPS VI, respectively. A previous study reported a combined assay for these three disorders in a 96-well plate using a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based technique (Kumar et al., Clin Chem 2015 61(11):1363-1371). In our study, we applied this methodology to a Japanese population to examine the assay precision and the separation of populations between disease-affected indi

SUBMITTER: Mashima R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5758840 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature