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Structural insights into human angiogenin variants implicated in Parkinson's disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Scientific reports - 8 Feb 2017
Bradshaw William J, Rehman Saima, Pham Tram T K, Thiyagarajan Nethaji, Lee Rebecca L, Subramanian Vasanta, Acharya K Ravi
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in Angiogenin (ANG), a member of the Ribonuclease A superfamily (also known as RNase 5) are known to be associated with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, motor neurone disease) (sporadic and familial) and Parkinson's Disease (PD). In our previous studies we have shown that ANG is expressed in neurons during neuro-ectodermal differentiation, and that it has both neurotrophic and neuroprotective...
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