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Higher susceptibility to osmolality of the medaka (Oryzias latipes) mutants in orthologue genes of mammalian skin transglutaminases.
Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry - 1 Jul 2018
Watanabe Yuko, Furukawa Eri, Tatsukawa Hideki, Hashimoto Hisashi, Kamei Yasuhiro, Taniguchi Yoshihito, Hitomi Kiyotaka
Abstract excerpt
Transglutaminase (TG) is an essential enzyme to catalyze cross-linking reactions of epidermal proteins. Recently, we biochemically characterized human skin TG orthologues for medaka (Oryzias latipes), a model fish. By genome editing, gene-modified fishes for the two orthologues were obtained, both of which lack the ordinal enzymes. These fish appeared to exhibit higher susceptibility to osmolality at the period...
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