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A cellular mechanism governing the severity of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease.
Nature genetics - 1 Aug 1996
Gow A, Lazzarini R A
Abstract excerpt
Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD) is a leukodystrophy linked to the proteolipid protein gene (PLP). We report a cellular basis for the distinction between two disease subtypes, classical and connatal, based on protein trafficking of the two PLP gene products (PLP and DM20). Classical PMD mutations correlate with accumulation of PLP in the ER of transfected COS-7 cells while the cognate DM20 traverses the...
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