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Pharmacological Chaperoning: A Potential Treatment for PMM2-CDG.
Human mutation - 1 Feb 2017
Yuste-Checa Patricia, Brasil Sandra, Gámez Alejandra, Underhaug Jarl, Desviat Lourdes R, Ugarte Magdalena, Pérez-Cerdá Celia, Martinez Aurora, Pérez Belén
Abstract excerpt
The congenital disorder of glycosylation (CDG) due to phosphomannomutase 2 deficiency (PMM2-CDG), the most common N-glycosylation disorder, is a multisystem disease for which no effective treatment is available. The recent functional characterization of disease-causing mutations described in patients with PMM2-CDG led to the idea of a therapeutic strategy involving pharmacological chaperones (PC) to rescue PMM2...
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