Article
Low-density lipoprotein receptor point mutation results in expression of both active and inactive surface forms of the same mutant receptor.
Biochemistry - 29 Dec 1992
Fourie A M, Coetzee G A, Gevers W, van der Westhuyzen D R
Abstract excerpt
LDL receptors, expressed in cultured fibroblasts from patients homozygous for the FH Afrikaner-1 (FH1) mutation (Asp206 to Glu), are transported from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) to the Golgi apparatus more slowly than in normal cells. In the present study, binding characteristics of FH1 cells...
Topics
- Ammonium Chloride
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- CHO Cells
- Cell Line
- Cricetinae
- Fibroblasts
- Gene Expression
- Homozygote
- Humans
- Immunoblotting
- Lipoproteins, LDL
