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The myotubularin family: novel phosphoinositide regulators.
IUBMB life - 1 Jan 2002
Nandurkar Harshal H, Huysmans Richard
Abstract excerpt
Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate [PtdIns(3)P] acts as a second messenger via the recruitment of diverse signalling proteins to various cellular compartments. Recent advances have highlighted the association of human diseases with mutations in phosphatases that regulate PtdIns(3)P levels. Myotubularin, the gene mutated in myotubular myopathy, functions as a lipid phosphatase with specificity for PtdIns(3)P. It is...
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