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Reversion of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a patient with deficiency of the mitochondrial copper binding protein Sco2: is there a potential effect of copper?
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2004
Freisinger P, Horvath R, Macmillan C, Peters J, Jaksch M
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Mutations in Sco2, a protein involved in copper trafficking to the terminal enzyme of the respiratory chain, cytochrome c oxidase, results in infantile hypertrophic cardioencephalomyopathy. We have recently shown that copper-histidine (Cu-his) supplementation of Sco2-deficient myoblasts rescues C...
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