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The endosomal protein-sorting receptor sortilin has a role in trafficking α-1 antitrypsin.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2012
Gelling Cristy L, Dawes Ian W, Perlmutter David H, Fisher Edward A, Brodsky Jeffrey L
Abstract excerpt
Up to 1 in 3000 individuals in the United States have α-1 antitrypsin deficiency, and the most common cause of this disease is homozygosity for the antitrypsin-Z variant (ATZ). ATZ is inefficiently secreted, resulting in protein deficiency in the lungs and toxic polymer accumulation in the liver....
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