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Assessing the efficacy of protein farnesyltransferase inhibitors in mouse models of progeria.
Journal of lipid research - 1 Feb 2010
Yang Shao H, Chang Sandy Y, Andres Douglas A, Spielmann H Peter, Young Stephen G, Fong Loren G
Abstract excerpt
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is caused by the accumulation of a farnesylated form of prelamin A (progerin). Previously, we showed that blocking protein farnesylation with a farnesyltransferase inhibitor (FTI) ameliorates the disease phenotypes in mouse model of HGPS (Lmna(HG/+)). H...
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