Acatalasemia was detected in 2 sisters of a Hungarian family. The pedigree of
the family showed hypocatalasemia in the children of the patients and in 1 of their brothers,
while the other members of the family had normal blood catalase activity. The biochemical
characterization (catalase activity, electrophoretic migration, isoelectric point and enzyme
stability) of the blood as well as tissue catalase of the acatalasémie patients yielded a catalase
form which did not differ from normal.