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Targeted manipulation of the sortilin-progranulin axis rescues progranulin haploinsufficiency.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Mar 2014
Lee Wing C, Almeida Sandra, Prudencio Mercedes, Caulfield Thomas R, Zhang Yong-Jie, Tay William M, Bauer Peter O, Chew Jeannie, Sasaguri Hiroki, Jansen-West Karen R, Gendron Tania F, Stetler Caroline T, Finch NiCole, Mackenzie Ian R, Rademakers Rosa, Gao Fen-Biao, Petrucelli Leonard
Abstract excerpt
Progranulin (GRN) mutations causing haploinsufficiency are a major cause of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD-TDP). Recent discoveries demonstrating sortilin (SORT1) is a neuronal receptor for PGRN endocytosis and a determinant of plasma PGRN levels portend the development of enhancers targeting the SORT1-PGRN axis. We demonstrate the preclinical efficacy of several approaches through which impairing PGRN's...
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