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Knockout of PARG110 confers resistance to cGMP-induced toxicity in mammalian photoreceptors.
Cell death & disease - 22 May 2014
Sahaboglu A, Tanimoto N, Bolz S, Garrido M G, Ueffing M, Seeliger M W, Löwenheim H, Ekström P, Paquet-Durand F
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary retinal degeneration (RD) relates to a heterogeneous group of blinding human diseases in which the light sensitive neurons of the retina, the photoreceptors, die. RD is currently untreatable and the underlying cellular mechanisms remain poorly understood. However, the activity of the enzyme poly-ADP-ribose polymerase-1 (PARP1) and excessive generation of poly-ADP-ribose (PAR) polymers in photoreceptor...
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