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Defective endoplasmic reticulum-resident membrane protein CLN6 affects lysosomal degradation of endocytosed arylsulfatase A.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 21 May 2004
Heine Claudia, Koch Bettina, Storch Stephan, Kohlschütter Alfried, Palmer David N, Braulke Thomas
Abstract excerpt
Variant late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis, a lysosomal storage disorder characterized by progressive mental deterioration and blindness, is caused by mutations in a polytopic membrane protein (CLN6) with unknown intracellular localization and function. In this study, transient transfection of BHK21 cells with CLN6 cDNA and immunoblot analysis using peptide-specific CLN6 antibodies demonstrated the...
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