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Regulation of SMN protein stability.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Mar 2009
Burnett Barrington G, Muñoz Eric, Tandon Animesh, Kwon Deborah Y, Sumner Charlotte J, Fischbeck Kenneth H
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by mutations of the survival of motor neuron (SMN1) gene and deficiency of full-length SMN protein (FL-SMN). All SMA patients retain one or more copies of the SMN2 gene, but the principal protein product of SMN2 lacks exon 7 (SMNDelta7) and is unable to compensate for a deficiency of FL-SMN. SMN is known to oligomerize and form a multimeric protein complex; however, the...
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