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Disruption of PPT2 in mice causes an unusual lysosomal storage disorder with neurovisceral features.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Oct 2003
Gupta Praveena, Soyombo Abigail A, Shelton John M, Wilkofsky Ian G, Wisniewski Krystyna E, Richardson James A, Hofmann Sandra L
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The palmitoyl protein thioesterase-2 (PPT2) gene encodes a lysosomal thioesterase homologous to PPT1, which is the enzyme defective in the human disorder called infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. In this article, we report that PPT2 deficiency in mice causes an unusual form of neuronal cer...
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