In a case of congenital hyperammonemia described in an 8½-month-old girl, elevated blood ammonia was shown to result from a mutant enzyme of ornithine transcarbamylase. An in vitro study indicated a decrease in affinity of the enzyme for carbamyl phosphate but not for ornithine.
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