Pathogenic proline mutation in the linker between spectrin repeats: disease caused by spectrin unfolding

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Pathogenic mutations in alpha and beta spectrin result in a variety of syndromes, including hereditary elliptocytosis (HE), hereditary pyropoikilocytosis (HPP), and hereditary spherocytosis (HS). Although some mutations clearly lie at sites of interaction, such as the sites of spectrin alpha-betatetramer formation, a surprising number of HE-causing mutations have been identified within linker regions between...

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