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Varied mechanisms underlie the free sialic acid storage disorders.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 14 Jan 2005
Wreden Christopher C, Wlizla Marcin, Reimer Richard J
Abstract excerpt
Salla disease and infantile sialic acid storage disorder are autosomal recessive neurodegenerative diseases characterized by loss of a lysosomal sialic acid transport activity and the resultant accumulation of free sialic acid in lysosomes. Genetic analysis of these diseases has identified several unique mutations in a single gene encoding a protein designated sialin (Verheijen, F. W., Verbeek, E., Aula, N.,...
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