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Colocalization of muscleblind with RNA foci is separable from mis-regulation of alternative splicing in myotonic dystrophy
17 Jun 2005
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy type I (DM1), which is caused by a non-coding CTG-repeat expansion in the dystrophia myotonica-protein kinase (DMPK) gene, is an RNA-mediated disease. Expanded CUG repeats in transcripts of mutant DMPK form nuclear foci that recruit muscleblind-like (MBNL) proteins, a family of alternative splicing factors. Although transcripts of mutant DMPK and MBNL proteins accumulate in nuclear RNA foci, it...
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