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Evidence for a cytoskeleton attachment domain at the N-terminus of the NF2 protein.
Journal of neuroscience research - 15 Dec 2000
den Bakker M A, Riegman P H, Suurmeijer A P, Vissers C J, Sainio M, Carpen O, Zwarthoff E C
Abstract excerpt
Neurofibromatosis type 2 is a hereditary cancer syndrome characterized by the development of bilateral vestibular schwannomas. Underlying the disease are inactivating mutations of the NF2 tumor suppressor gene, located on chromosome 22, encoding a 595-amino-acid protein. The NF2 protein, also known as merlin or schwannomin, is reported to act as a membrane-cytoskeleton linking protein. This assumption is based on...
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