Article
Identification of a chromosome 6-encoded dystrophin-related protein.
1 Oct 1990
Abstract excerpt
Dystrophin is the protein product of an X-linked locus which is disrupted to yield the phenotypes of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies. Recently an autosomal transcript was identified (Love, D. R., Hill, D. F., Dickson, G., Spurr, N. K., Byth, B. C., Marsden, R. F., Walsh, F. S., Edwards, Y. H., and Davies, K. E. (1989) Nature 339, 55-58) with a carboxyl-terminal sequence similar to dystrophin. We have...