Functions of dystrophin and dystrophin associated proteins.

doi:10.1097/00019052-199710000-00014

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Functions of dystrophin and dystrophin associated proteins.

Current opinion in neurology - 1 Oct 1997

Michalak M, Opas M

Abstract excerpt

Dystrophin is a protein product of the X-linked gene mutation that is responsible for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies. The protein binds actin and associates with dystrophin-glycoprotein complex to link the cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix. Defects in the components of the dystro...

Topics

Animals
Cytoskeletal Proteins
Dystrophin
Humans
Membrane Proteins
Muscular Dystrophies
Muscular Dystrophy, Animal
Phenotype
Utrophin

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