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Mutational and functional analyses of xylosyltransferases and their implication in osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis and cartilage - 1 May 2006
Schön S, Huep G, Prante C, Müller S, Christ R, Hagena F-W, Kuhn J, Kleesiek K, Götting C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The hallmark in osteoarthritis (OA) is the loss of proteoglycans (PGs) in articular cartilage (AC). Xylosyltransferase I (XT-I) catalyzes the transfer of xylose to serine residues in the core protein and initiates the biosynthesis of PGs in AC. The XYLT-II gene encodes a highly homologous protein but its biological function is not yet known. Here we investigate for the first time genetic variations in...
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