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Characterization of zebrafish merlot/chablis as non-mammalian vertebrate models for severe congenital anemia due to protein 4.1 deficiency.
Development (Cambridge, England) - 1 Sept 2002
Shafizadeh Ebrahim, Paw Barry H, Foott Helen, Liao Eric C, Barut Bruce A, Cope John J, Zon Leonard I, Lin Shuo
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The red blood cell membrane skeleton is an elaborate and organized network of structural proteins that interacts with the lipid bilayer and transmembrane proteins to maintain red blood cell morphology, membrane deformability and mechanical stability. A crucial component of red blood cell membrane skeleton is the erythroid specific protein 4.1R, which anchors the spectrin-actin based cytoskeleton to the plasma...
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