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Unraveling obscurins in heart disease.
Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology - 1 May 2019
Grogan Alyssa, Kontrogianni-Konstantopoulos Aikaterini
Abstract excerpt
Obscurins, expressed from the single OBSCN gene, are a family of giant, modular, cytoskeletal proteins that play key structural and regulatory roles in striated muscles. They were first implicated in the development of heart disease in 2007 when two missense mutations were found in a patient diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Since then, the discovery of over a dozen missense, frameshift, and...
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