Stirling J L
Biochem J. 1974 Aug;141(2):597-9. doi: 10.1042/bj1410597.
In Tay-Sachs disease and Sandhoff's disease respectively, one of the N-acetyl-beta-hexosaminidases (form A) or both (forms A and B) are absent, but glycosaminoglycans containing N-acetylhexosamines are not accumulated. The presence of NN'-diacetylchitobiase in livers from patients with these diseases raises the possibility that this new enzyme is involved in the metabolism of glycosaminoglycans rather than the enzymes previously described.
在泰-萨克斯病和桑德霍夫病中,分别缺失一种N-乙酰-β-己糖胺酶(A 型)或两种(A 型和 B 型),但含有 N-乙酰己糖胺的糖胺聚糖并未积累。这些疾病患者肝脏中存在 NN'-二乙酰壳二糖酶,这增加了一种可能性,即这种新酶参与糖胺聚糖的代谢,而非先前描述的那些酶。