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ALDP expression in fibroblasts of patients with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jan 1996
Kemp S, Mooyer P A, Bolhuis P A, van Geel B M, Mandel J L, Barth P G, Aubourg P, Wanders R J
Abstract excerpt
The adrenoleukodystrophy gene encodes a peroxisomal integral membrane protein (ALDP) consisting of 745 amino acids with a molecular weight of 75kDa. ALDP expression was studied in fibroblasts from 24 male ALD patients from 17 unrelated ALD kindreds. In four kindreds an identical 2-base-pair deletion was found. We report the absence of ALDP in 12 kindreds carrying nonsense mutations, frame shifts or amino acid...
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