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Pompe disease results in a Golgi-based glycosylation deficit in human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 30 Jan 2015
Raval Kunil K, Tao Ran, White Brent E, De Lange Willem J, Koonce Chad H, Yu Junying, Kishnani Priya S, Thomson James A, Mosher Deane F, Ralphe John C, Kamp Timothy J
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Infantile-onset Pompe disease is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by the complete loss of lysosomal glycogen-hydrolyzing enzyme acid α-glucosidase (GAA) activity, which results in lysosomal glycogen accumulation and prominent cardiac and skeletal muscle pathology. The mechanism by which loss of GAA activity causes cardiomyopathy is poorly understood. We reprogrammed fibroblasts from patients with...
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