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Defective C-propeptides of the proalpha2(I) chain of type I procollagen impede molecular assembly and result in osteogenesis imperfecta.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 6 Jun 2008
Pace James M, Wiese Mary, Drenguis Andrea S, Kuznetsova Natalia, Leikin Sergey, Schwarze Ulrike, Chen Diana, Mooney Suzanne H, Unger Sheila, Byers Peter H
Abstract excerpt
Type I procollagen is a heterotrimer composed of two proalpha1(I) chains and one proalpha2(I) chain, encoded by the COL1A1 and COL1A2 genes, respectively. Mutations in these genes usually lead to dominantly inherited forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) by altering the triple helical domains, but a few affect sequences in the proalpha1(I) C-terminal propeptide (C-propeptide), and one, which has a phenotype only...
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