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    β-Glucocerebrosidase (also called acid β-glucosidase, D-glucosyl-N-acylsphingosine glucohydrolase, or GCase) is an enzyme with glucosylceramidase activity...
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    and spleen, and is caused by a hereditary deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase (also known as glucosylceramidase), which acts on glucocerebroside...
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    monosaccharide head group is glucose. In Gaucher's disease, the enzyme glucocerebrosidase is nonfunctional and cannot break down glucocerebroside into glucose...
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    recently been shown to increase activity of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase. Because of this it may be a useful therapeutic agent for both Gaucher...
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  • Protalix and Pfizer.[full citation needed] The drug, a recombinant glucocerebrosidase used to treat Gaucher's disease, is the first plant-made pharmaceutical...
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    LSD is Gaucher's disease, which is due to deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. Consequently, the enzyme substrate, the fatty acid glucosylceramide...
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    Beutler E, West C, Gelbart T (1992). "Polymorphisms in the human glucocerebrosidase gene". Genomics. 12 (4): 795–800. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90311-F...
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    implicated in PD in South Asian populations. The GBA gene encodes for glucocerebrosidase (GCase) which is a lysosomal enzyme that breaks down glucosylceramide...
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    recently been shown to increase activity of the lysosomal enzyme glucocerebrosidase, so it may be a useful therapeutic agent for both Gaucher disease...
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  • Israel. Development of taliglucerase alfa (Elelyso), a recombinant glucocerebrosidase enzyme produced from transgenic carrot cell cultures. Taliglucerase...
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    trauma. Gaucher disease which is caused by deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase. Giant cell arteritis Sympathomimetic drugs, such as amphetamine,...
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    a sphingolipidosis described by a particular inadequacy in acidic glucocerebrosidase, which results in abnormal gathering of glucosylceramide essentially...
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  • Global Corruption Barometer Gloucestershire Cricket Board, in England Glucocerebrosidase, enzyme (Dame or Knight) Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Great...
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  • It is a recombinant DNA-produced analogue of the human enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase. Cerezyme is a freeze-dried medicine containing imiglucerase, manufactured...
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    1960; 235: 3099–3103. Brady RO, Kanfer JN, Shapiro, D. Metabolism of glucocerebrosidase. II. Evidence of an enzymatic deficiency in Gaucher's disease. Biochem...
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    Gaucher have a defect in the enzyme called glucocerebrosidase (also known as acid β-glucosidase). Glucocerebrosidase is an enzyme, and its function is to convert...
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  • treatment of Gaucher's disease. It was a modified form of human β-glucocerebrosidase enzyme, where the non-reducing ends of the oligosaccharide chains...
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    its development. The substance was used in form of the tartrate. β-Glucocerebrosidase, an enzyme needed for the metabolisation of glucocerebroside, is misfolded...
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  • disease may vary among populations. For example, two mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene each cause Gaucher's disease in Ashkenazim, which is that group's...
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    cyclophellitol have been used for the detection of enzymes such as glucocerebrosidase, deficiency of which results in Gaucher's disease. Atsumi, S. et al...
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    Gaucher disease and Parkinson's disease, and her group first identified glucocerebrosidase as a risk factor for parkinsonism. She led two large international...
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    published by the NIH: identifying mutations in the gene that codes for glucocerebrosidase as a risk factor for Parkinson's disease. In 2015, 23andMe made a...
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    such as α-synuclein (SNCA), leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2), glucocerebrosidase (GBA), and tau protein (MAPT) can also cause hereditary PD or increase...
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    GlcCer-beta-glucosidase, beta-D-glucocerebrosidase, glucosylcerebrosidase, beta-glucosylceramidase, ceramide glucosidase, glucocerebrosidase, glucosylsphingosine...
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    transplant, generally fatal before age 2 for infants Gaucher disease Glucocerebrosidase Glucocerebrosides in RBCs, liver and spleen Hepatosplenomegaly Pancytopenia...
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  • developing four products: Taliglucerase alfa (Elelyso) – a recombinant glucocerebrosidase enzyme produced from transgenic carrot cell cultures. Known also as...
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  • glucocerebroside-specific enzyme, which is a recombinant form of glucocerebrosidase. It has an identical amino acid sequence to the naturally occurring...
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    (May 1995). "Metaxin, a gene contiguous to both thrombospondin 3 and glucocerebrosidase, is required for embryonic development in the mouse: implications...
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    beta-glucosides. Any one of over 50 different mutations in the gene of glucocerebrosidase have been found to affect activity of this hydrolase, producing variants...
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  • cryptographic technology that enables the authentication of a user Glucocerebrosidase, a human enzyme GBA2, a gene which encodes for cytosolic beta-glucosidase...
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