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The ataxia3 mutation in the N-terminal cytoplasmic domain of sodium channel Na(v)1.6 disrupts intracellular trafficking.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 4 Mar 2009
Sharkey Lisa M, Cheng Xiaoyang, Drews Valerie, Buchner David A, Jones Julie M, Justice Monica J, Waxman Stephen G, Dib-Hajj Sulayman D, Meisler Miriam H
Abstract excerpt
The ENU-induced neurological mutant ataxia3 was mapped to distal mouse chromosome 15. Sequencing of the positional candidate gene Scn8a encoding the sodium channel Na(v)1.6 identified a T>C transition in exon 1 resulting in the amino acid substitution p.S21P near the N terminus of the channel. The cytoplasmic N-terminal region is evolutionarily conserved but its function has not been well characterized. ataxia3...
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