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Cysteamine revisited: repair of arginine to cysteine mutations.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jul 2017
Gallego-Villar L, Hannibal Luciana, Häberle J, Thöny B, Ben-Omran T, Nasrallah G K, Dewik Al-N, Kruger W D, Blom H J
Abstract excerpt
Cysteamine is a small aminothiol endogenously derived from coenzyme A degradation. For some decades, synthetic cysteamine has been employed for the treatment of cystinosis, and new uses of the drug continue to emerge. In this review, we discuss the role of cysteamine in cellular and extracellular homeostasis and focus on the potential use of aminothiols to reconstitute the function of proteins harboring arginine...
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