Mevalonate kinase deficiency: current perspectives [PDF]
Leslie A Favier, Grant S Schulert Division of Rheumatology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA Abstract: Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) is a recessively inherited autoinflammatory disorder with a spectrum of
Favier LA, Schulert GS
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Tocilizumab for the Treatment of Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency [PDF]
Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) is a severe autoinflammatory disease caused by recessive mutations in MVK resulting in reduced function of the enzyme mevalonate kinase, involved in the cholesterol/isoprenoid pathway.
Nadia K. Rafiq +4 more
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Case Report: Clinical application of an in vitro prenylation assay in the diagnosis of an early-onset case of mevalonate kinase deficiency harbouring a novel MVK variant [PDF]
Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) is a systemic autoinflammatory disease caused by biallelic mutations in MVK. Individuals with MKD present with a recurrent fever syndrome, often including a skin rash, gastrointestinal symptoms and lymphadenopathy.
Alice Burleigh +12 more
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Increased core body temperature exacerbates defective protein prenylation in mouse models of mevalonate kinase deficiency [PDF]
Mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD) is characterized by recurrent fevers and flares of systemic inflammation, caused by biallelic loss-of-function mutations in MVK.
Marcia A. Munoz +19 more
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Mevalonate kinase deficiency (hyperimmunoglobulin D syndrome) in a Tanzanian girl: a case report [PDF]
Background Hyperimmunoglobulin D syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive autoinflammatory syndrome caused by mevalonate kinase enzyme deficiency. It is characterized by recurrent febrile attacks beginning in the first year of life.
Elisamia Ngowi +10 more
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Molecular Characterization of Trypanosoma evansi Mevalonate Kinase (TeMVK) [PDF]
The mevalonate pathway is an essential part of isoprenoid biosynthesis leading to production of a diverse class of >30,000 biomolecules including cholesterol, heme, and all steroid hormones.
Daniel P. Duarte +8 more
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Defective Protein Prenylation in a Spectrum of Patients With Mevalonate Kinase Deficiency [PDF]
The rare autoinflammatory disease mevalonate kinase deficiency (MKD, which includes HIDS and mevalonic aciduria) is caused by recessive, pathogenic variants in the MVK gene encoding mevalonate kinase.
Marcia A. Munoz +10 more
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Structural insight into substrate and product binding in an archaeal mevalonate kinase. [PDF]
Mevalonate kinase (MK) is a key enzyme of the mevalonate pathway, which produces the biosynthetic precursors for steroids, including cholesterol, and isoprenoids, the largest class of natural products.
Bradley R Miller, Yan Kung
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Mevalonate kinase deficiencies: from mevalonic aciduria to hyperimmunoglobulinemia D syndrome [PDF]
Mevalonic aciduria (MVA) and hyperimmunoglobulinemia D syndrome (HIDS) represent the two ends of a clinical spectrum of disease caused by deficiency of mevalonate kinase (MVK), the first committed enzyme of cholesterol biosynthesis.
Hoffmann Georg F, Haas Dorothea
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Autoinflammatory disease syndrome of hyperimmunoglobulinemia D
Objective: present a clinical case of a rare autoinflammatory disease. Materials and methods: an analysis of a clinical case of mevalonate kinase deficiency syndrome in an 8-year-old girl was carried out.
T. M. Somova
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