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DLAT

Chr 11q23.1

dihydrolipoamide S-acetyltransferase

Aliases:
PDC-E2, E2
MANE:
ENST00000280346.11

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Predicted protein structure

Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Diagnostic Grade (Green)

  • Childhood onset dystonia, chorea or related movement disorder

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • DDG2P

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Early onset dystonia

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Likely inborn error of metabolism

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Mitochondrial disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Possible mitochondrial disorder - nuclear genes

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) deficiency

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
  • Structural basal ganglia disorders

    BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

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Disease associations (Open Targets)

  • pyruvate dehydrogenase E2 deficiency

    0.79
  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency

    0.71
  • Dystonia

    0.37
  • hereditary disease

    0.34
  • neurodegenerative disease

    0.32
  • Leigh syndrome

    0.23
  • Familial prostate cancer

    0.11
  • prostate cancer

    0.11
  • hepatocellular carcinoma

    0.11
  • cancer

    0.10

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Dihydrolipoyllysine-residue acetyltransferase component of pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, mitochondrial

The pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex, catalyzes the overall conversion of pyruvate to acetyl-CoA and CO(2), and thereby links cytoplasmic glycolysis and the mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle (Probable). It contains multiple copies of three enzymatic components: pyruvate dehydrogenase (E1), dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase (E2) and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (E3); (Probable). Within this complex, the catalytic function of this enzyme is to accept, and to transfer to coenzyme A, acetyl groups from acetyl-lipoyl moiety generated by the pyruvate dehydrogenase, leading to acetyl-CoA formation (Probable)

Data sources: HGNC (CC BY 4.0), AlphaFold (CC BY 4.0, Jumper et al. Nature 2021), Genomics England PanelApp (CC BY 4.0), ClinGen, Open Targets (CC0), UniProt.

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