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The transmembrane protein TMEM16A is required for normal development of the murine trachea.
Developmental biology - 1 Sept 2008
Rock Jason R, Futtner Christopher R, Harfe Brian D
Abstract excerpt
Pathological collapsibility of the upper airways, caused by many different genetic and environmental insults, is known as tracheomalacia in humans. We determined that Tmem16a, a member of an evolutionarily conserved family of predicted transmembrane proteins, is expressed in the developing trachea. We report that all mice homozygous for a null allele of Tmem16a died within one month of birth and exhibited severe...
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