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Cholesterol trapping in Niemann-Pick disease type B fibroblasts can be relieved by expressing the phosphotyrosine binding domain of GULP.
Journal of clinical lipidology - 1 Jan 2000
Lee Ching Yin, Ruel Isabelle, Denis Maxime, Genest Jacques, Kiss Robert S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Impairment of acid sphingomyelinase (SMase) results in accumulation of sphingomyelin (SM) and cholesterol in late endosomes, the hallmarks of a lysosomal storage disease. OBJECTIVE: We describe cellular lipid metabolism in fibroblasts from two patients with novel compound heterozygote mutations in the sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 1 (SMPD1) gene manifesting as Niemann-Pick disease type B (NPB) and...
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