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Modest loss of peripheral axons, muscle atrophy and formation of brain inclusions in mice with targeted deletion of gigaxonin exon 1.
Journal of neurochemistry - 1 Oct 2008
Dequen Florence, Bomont Pascale, Gowing Geneviève, Cleveland Don W, Julien Jean-Pierre
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the gigaxonin gene are responsible for giant axonal neuropathy (GAN), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with abnormal accumulations of Intermediate Filaments (IFs). Gigaxonin is the substrate-specific adaptor for a new Cul3-E3-ubiquitin ligase family that promotes t...
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