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Sequence specificity of aminoglycoside-induced stop condon readthrough: potential implications for treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Annals of neurology - 1 Aug 2000
Howard M T, Shirts B H, Petros L M, Flanigan K M, Gesteland R F, Atkins J F
Abstract excerpt
As a result of their ability to induce translational readthrough of stop codons, the aminoglycoside antibiotics are currently being tested for efficacy in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients carrying a nonsense mutation in the dystrophin gene. We have undertaken a systematic analysis of aminoglycoside-induced readthrough of each stop codon in human tissue culture cells using a dual luciferase...
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