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Enhanced transthyretin tetramer stability following expression of an amyloid disease transsuppressor variant in mammalian cells.
The journal of gene medicine - 1 Feb 2009
Kamata Masakazu, Susanto Melisa T, Chen Irvin S Y
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The transthyretin (TTR) amyloidosis is an incurable fatal inherited disease that is characterized by progressive peripheral and autonomic neuropathy. It is caused by missense amyloidogenic mutations in the TTR gene that destabilize the native tetrameric state and lead to the cytotoxic misfolded monomeric state. One interesting variant (T119M) stabilizes heterotetramers with amyloidogenic TTR and, in...
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