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Beta-galactosidase deficiency: an approach to chaperone therapy.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 2000
Suzuki Yoshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
We propose a new molecular therapeutic approach to lysosomal diseases with severe neurological manifestations. Some low-molecular-weight compounds, acting as competitive inhibitors of a lysosomal enzyme in vitro, were found to stabilize and restore catalytic activities of the enzyme molecule as a molecular chaperone. We started this trial first in Fabry disease (generalized vasculopathy) using galactose and...
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