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Failure of microtubule-mediated peroxisome division and trafficking in disorders with reduced peroxisome abundance.
Journal of cell science - 15 Feb 2006
Nguyen Tam, Bjorkman Jonas, Paton Barbara C, Crane Denis I
Abstract excerpt
In contrast to peroxisomes in normal cells, remnant peroxisomes in cultured skin fibroblasts from a subset of the clinically severe peroxisomal disorders that includes the biogenesis disorder Zellweger syndrome and the single-enzyme defect D-bifunctional protein (D-BP) deficiency, are enlarged and significantly less abundant. We tested whether these features could be related to the known role of microtubules in...
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