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Three routes to suppression of the neurodegenerative phenotypes caused by kinesin heavy chain mutations.
Genetics - 1 Sept 2012
Djagaeva Inna, Rose Debra J, Lim Angeline, Venter Chris E, Brendza Katherine M, Moua Pangkong, Saxton William M
Abstract excerpt
Kinesin-1 is a motor protein that moves stepwise along microtubules by employing dimerized kinesin heavy chain (Khc) subunits that alternate cycles of microtubule binding, conformational change, and ATP hydrolysis. Mutations in the Drosophila Khc gene are known to cause distal paralysis and lethality preceded by the occurrence of dystrophic axon terminals, reduced axonal transport, organelle-filled axonal...
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