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Redesigning therapies for pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 1 Mar 2022
Munshi Muhammad I, Yao Sarah J, Ben Mamoun Choukri
Abstract excerpt
Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN) is an incurable rare genetic disorder of children and young adults caused by mutations in the PANK2 gene, which encodes an enzyme critical for the biosynthesis of coenzyme A. Although PKAN affects only a small number of patients, it shares several hallmarks of more common neurodegenerative diseases of older adults such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's...
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