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Pharmacologic rescue of an enzyme-trafficking defect in primary hyperoxaluria 1.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Oct 2014
Miyata Non, Steffen Janos, Johnson Meghan E, Fargue Sonia, Danpure Christopher J, Koehler Carla M
Abstract excerpt
Primary hyperoxaluria 1 (PH1; Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man no. 259900), a typically lethal biochemical disorder, may be caused by the AGT(P11LG170R) allele in which the alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT) enzyme is mistargeted from peroxisomes to mitochondria. AGT contains a C-terminal peroxisomal targeting sequence, but mutations generate an N-terminal mitochondrial targeting sequence that directs...
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