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Isoform-specific mutation in Dystonin-b gene causes late-onset protein aggregate myopathy and cardiomyopathy.
eLife - 9 Aug 2022
Yoshioka Nozomu, Kurose Masayuki, Yano Masato, Tran Dang Minh, Okuda Shujiro, Mori-Ochiai Yukiko, Horie Masao, Nagai Toshihiro, Nishino Ichizo, Shibata Shinsuke, Takebayashi Hirohide
Abstract excerpt
Dystonin (DST), which encodes cytoskeletal linker proteins, expresses three tissue-selective isoforms: neural DST-a, muscular DST-b, and epithelial DST-e. DST mutations cause different disorders, including hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy 6 (HSAN-VI) and epidermolysis bullosa simplex; however, etiology of the muscle phenotype in DST-related diseases has been unclear. Because DST-b contains all of the...
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