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Basis of lethality in C. elegans lacking CUP-5, the Mucolipidosis Type IV orthologue.
Developmental biology - 15 May 2006
Schaheen Lara, Dang Hope, Fares Hanna
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in MCOLN1, which encodes the protein h-mucolipin-1, result in the lysosomal storage disease Mucolipidosis Type IV. Studies on CUP-5, the human orthologue of h-mucolipin-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans, have shown that these proteins are required for lysosome biogenesis. We show here that the lethality in cup-5 mutant worms is due to two defects, starvation of embryonic cells and general developmental...
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