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Cappuccino, a mouse model of Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, encodes a novel protein that is part of the pallidin-muted complex (BLOC-1).
Blood - 1 Jun 2003
Ciciotte Steven L, Gwynn Babette, Moriyama Kengo, Huizing Marjan, Gahl William A, Bonifacino Juan S, Peters Luanne L
Abstract excerpt
Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a disorder of organelle biogenesis affecting 3 related organelles-melanosomes, platelet dense bodies, and lysosomes. Four genes causing HPS in humans (HPS1-HPS4) are known, and at least 15 nonallelic mutations cause HPS in the mouse. Where their functions are known, the HPS-associated proteins are involved in some aspect of intracellular vesicular trafficking, that is, protein...
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