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Mistargeting of peroxisomal L-alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase to mitochondria in primary hyperoxaluria patients depends upon activation of a cryptic mitochondrial targeting sequence by a point mutation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Dec 1991
Purdue P E, Allsop J, Isaya G, Rosenberg L E, Danpure C J
Abstract excerpt
In approximately one-third of primary hyperoxaluria type 1 patients, disease is associated with a unique protein sorting defect in which hepatic L-alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT; EC 2.6.1.44), which is normally peroxisomal, is mistargeted to mitochondria. In all such patients analyzed to date, the gene encoding the aberrantly targeted AGT carries three point mutations, each of which specifies an amino...
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