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Diabetes-Associated Mutations in Proinsulin Provide a "Molecular Rheostat" of Nascent Foldability.
Current diabetes reports - 1 Feb 2022
Dhayalan Balamurugan, Weiss Michael A
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Diabetes mellitus (DM) due to toxic misfolding of proinsulin variants provides a monogenic model of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. The mutant proinsulin syndrome (also designated MIDY; Mutant INS-gene-induced Diabetes of Youth or Maturity-onset diabetes of the young 10 (MODY10)) ordinarily presents as permanent neonatal-onset DM, but specific amino-acid substitutions may also present later...
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