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A 7-year-old boy with speech delay, hyperactive behavior, and minor neurologic abnormalities had been found in the past to have "intermittent cystinuria." A more detailed investigation revealed hyperlysinemia and hyperlysinuria, with lesser increases in urinary excretion of arginine and cystine. The plasma and urine abnormalities increased on a diet of 3 gm of protein/kg body weight/day. Saccharopine, a normal metabolite of lysine not found in the body fluids of normal people, was present in plasma, cerebrospinal fluid, and urine of the patient. Lysine-ketoglutarate reductase and saccharopine dehydrogenase activities were not detectable in extracts of cultured skin fibroblasts. Re-examination of the urine of previously studied cases of this double enzyme deficiency suggests that saccharopinuria of variable degree is the rule and not the exception.
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