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Organization of the Rab-GDI/CHM superfamily: the functional basis for choroideremia disease.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) - 1 Aug 2001
Alory C, Balch W E
Abstract excerpt
Choroideremia is an X-chromosome-linked disease that leads to the degeneration of the choriocapillaris, the retinal pigment epithelium and the photoreceptor layer in the eye. The gene product defective in choroideremia, CHM, is identical to Rab escort protein 1 (REP1). CHM/REP1 is an essential component of the catalytic geranylgeranyltransferase II complex (GGTrII) that delivers newly synthesized small GTPases...
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