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Role of cartilage-associated protein in skeletal development.
Current osteoporosis reports - 1 Jun 2010
Morello Roy, Rauch Frank
Abstract excerpt
The past 3 years have been exciting for collagen biologists and human geneticists studying the disease known as osteogenesis imperfecta (OI or brittle bone disease). Functional studies on cartilage-associated protein (Crtap) have identified it as an essential component of a heterotrimeric, endoplasmic reticulum resident complex responsible for collagen prolyl 3-hydroxylation and chaperone function. Importantly,...
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