Article
Local amino acid sequence patterns dominate the heterogeneous phenotype for the collagen connective tissue disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta resulting from Gly mutations.
Journal of structural biology - 1 Oct 2015
Xiao Jianxi, Yang Zhangfu, Sun Xiuxia, Addabbo Rayna, Baum Jean
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), a hereditary connective tissue disease in collagen that arises from a single Gly → X mutation in the collagen chain, varies widely in phenotype from perinatal lethal to mild. It is unclear why there is such a large variation in the severity of the disease considering the repeating (Gly-X-Y)n sequence and the uniform rod-like structure of collagen. We systematically evaluate the...
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- Amino Acid Sequence
- Collagen Type I
- Collagen Type I, alpha 1 Chain
- Genetic Association Studies
- Humans
- Models, Molecular
