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Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome: deficiency in CGI-58, a lipid droplet-bound coactivator of lipase.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Jun 2009
Yamaguchi Tomohiro, Osumi Takashi
Abstract excerpt
Chanarin-Dorfman syndrome (CDS) is a rare autosomal recessive disease of lipid metabolism; it is associated with congenital ichthyosis typed as non-bullous congenital ichthyosiform erythroderma (NCIE). CDS is characterized by the presence of an abnormally large number of cytosolic lipid droplets containing triacylglycerol (TG) in various tissues such as the skin, liver, and leukocytes. Mutations in the CGI-58...
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