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Immunodeficiency due to defects in store-operated calcium entry.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Nov 2011
Feske Stefan
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in genes encoding the calcium-release activated calcium (CRAC) channel abolish calcium influx in cells of the immune system and cause severe congenital immunodeficiency. Patients with autosomal recessive mutations in the CRAC channel gene ORAI1, its activator stromal interaction molecule 1 (STIM1), and mice with targeted deletion of Orai1, Stim1, and Stim2 genes reveal important roles for CRAC channels...
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