Carnitine is a pharmacological allosteric chaperone of the human lysosomal <i>α</i>-glucosidase

Roberta Iacono, Nadia Minopoli, Maria Carmina Ferrara, Antonietta Tarallo, Carla Damiano, Caterina Porto, Sandra Strollo, V. Roig-Zamboni, Gianfranco Peluso, Gerlind Sulzenbacher,

Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry · 2021 · 10 citations · 47 references

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-glucosidase activity in fibroblasts from three Pompe patients with added rhGAA. This synergistic effect of L-carnitine and rhGAA has the potential to be translated into improved therapeutic efficacy of ERT in Pompe disease.

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