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Mitochondrial acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase (T2) deficiency affects both isoleucine catabolism and ketone body metabolism. The disorder is characterized by intermittent ketoacidotic episodes. We report three Japanese patients. One patient (GK69) experienced two ketoacidotic episodes at the age of 9 months and 3 years, and no further episodes until the age of 25 years. She had two uncomplicated pregnancies. GK69 was a compound heterozygote of the c.431A&gt;C (H144P) and c.1168T&gt;C (S390P) mutations in T2 (ACAT1) gene. She was not suspected of having T2 deficiency during her childhood, but she was diagnosed as T2 deficient at the age of 25 years by enzyme assay using fibroblasts. The other two patients were identical twin siblings who presented their first ketoacidotic crisis simultaneously at the age of 3 years 4 months. One of them (GK77b) died during the first crisis and the other (GK77) survived. Even during severe crises, C5-OH and C5:1 were within normal ranges in their blood acylcarnitine profiles and trace amounts of tiglylglycine and small amounts of 2-methyl-3-hydroxybutyrate were detected in their urinary organic acid profiles. They were H144P homozygotes. This H144P mutation has retained the highest residual T2 activity in the transient expression analysis of mutant cDNA thus far, while the S390P mutation did not retain any residual T2 activity. The "mild" H144P mutation may result in subtle profiles in blood acylcarnitine and urinary organic acid analyses. T2-deficient patients with "mild" mutations have severe ketoacidotic crises but their chemical phenotypes may be subtle even during acute crises.

Three Japanese Patients with Beta-Ketothiolase Deficiency Who Share a Mutation, c.431A>C (H144P) in ACAT1