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    Hexosaminidase (EC 3.2.1.52, β-acetylaminodeoxyhexosidase, N-acetyl-β-D-hexosaminidase, N-acetyl-β-hexosaminidase, N-acetyl hexosaminidase, β-hexosaminidase...
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    gene on chromosome 15, which codes a subunit of the hexosaminidase enzyme known as hexosaminidase A. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner...
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    disorder caused by the inherited deficiency to create functional beta-hexosaminidases A and B. These catabolic enzymes are needed to degrade the neuronal...
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    Hexosaminidase A (alpha polypeptide), also known as HEXA, is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HEXA gene, located on the 15th chromosome. Hexosaminidase...
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    Beta-hexosaminidase subunit beta is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the HEXB gene. Hexosaminidase B is the beta subunit of the lysosomal enzyme...
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  • genetic disorders that result from a deficiency of the enzyme beta-hexosaminidase. This enzyme catalyzes the biodegradation of fatty acid derivatives...
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    Infantile Juvenile Adult onset Tay–Sachs Juvenile hexosaminidase A deficiency Chronic hexosaminidase A deficiency Glucocerebroside Gaucher disease Type...
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    C. perfringens encodes for eight hexosaminidases that break down hexosamines in the mucus. These hexosaminidases belong to four glycoside hydrolase...
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    In 2011, researchers discovered that pyrimethamine can increase β-hexosaminidase activity, thus potentially slowing down the progression of late-onset...
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    substrate 4-nitrophenyl N-acetyl-β-D-glucosamine. Dispersin B is a β-hexosaminidase that specifically hydrolyzes β-1,6-glycosidic linkages of acetylglucosamine...
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    same enzyme, beta-hexosaminidase. AB variant is caused by a failure in the gene that makes an enzyme cofactor for beta-hexosaminidase, called the GM2 activator...
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    on chromosome 15. The HEXA gene makes part of an enzyme called beta-hexosaminidase A, which plays a critical role in the nervous system. This enzyme helps...
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    are 3 forms of beta-hexosaminidase: hexosaminidase A is a trimer, with one alpha, one beta-A and one beta-B chain; hexosaminidase B is a tetramer of two...
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    insufficiency is Tay–Sachs disease, in which patients lack the enzyme hexosaminidase. One example of enzyme deficiency is the most common type of phenylketonuria...
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    Tay–Sachs disease arises as a genetic defect which leads to no functional hexosaminidase A produced, causing GM2 to accumulate in lysosomes. Ultimately the ganglion...
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    sulfate proteoglycans adenosine triphosphate (ATP) lysosomal enzymes β-hexosaminidase β-glucuronidase arylsulfatases newly formed lipid mediators (eicosanoids):...
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    enzymes are elevated, including tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, hexosaminidase, and a human chitinase, chitotriosidase. This latter enzyme has proved...
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    trait has been suggested. In 2008, researchers in Texas identified the hexosaminidase A deficiency known in humans as Tay–Sachs disease in four Jacob lambs...
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    months of age. There is no cure for the disease. Mutations in the β-hexosaminidase A (Hex A) gene are known to affect the onset of Tay-Sachs, with 78 mutations...
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  • Ohno, Kousaku & Suzuki, Kunihiko (1988-12-05). "Multiple Abnormal beta-Hexosaminidase alpha-Chain mRNAs in a Compound-Heterozygous Ashkenazi Jewish Patient...
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  • evaluated by estimation of released lysosomal enzymes such as beta hexosaminidase. An electron-dense granule defined by the presence of Toll-like receptor...
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    a substrate specific co-factor for the lysosomal enzyme β-hexosaminidase A. β-hexosaminidase A, together with GM2 ganglioside activator, catalyzes the...
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  • granzymes, lysosomal hydrolases (for example cathepsins B and D, β-hexosaminidase) and other cytolytic effector proteins. Once these proteins are delivered...
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    to identify and purify a specific enzyme that cleaved hexosamine (a hexosaminidase) from a soil organism. Treating the polysaccharide with this enzyme...
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    N-terminal domain represents the N-terminal domain in chitobiases and beta-hexosaminidases. Chitobiases degrade chitin, which forms the exoskeleton in insects...
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    Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans biofilm cells by an endogenous beta-hexosaminidase activity". Journal of Bacteriology. 185 (16): 4693–8. doi:10.1128/JB...
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    and BA3. Additionally, K252b dose-dependently inhibits Ag induced β-hexosaminidase release. K252b also inhibits IgE receptor-mediated degranulation of...
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  • Heterotaxy with polysplenia or asplenia Heterotaxy, visceral, X-linked Hexosaminidases A and B deficiency HHH syndrome Hibernian fever, familial Hiccups Hidradenitis...
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  • risks. Enzyme assay techniques detect individuals with lower levels of hexosaminidase A. Development of a serum enzyme assay test made it feasible to conduct...
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    5-hydroxytryptophol, ethyl sulfate, phosphatidyl ethanol, sialic acid level, β-hexosaminidase, mitochondrial AST levels, and alcohol metabolites such as erythrocyte...
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