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The molecular basis of alanine: glyoxylate aminotransferase mistargeting: the most common single cause of primary hyperoxaluria type 1.
Journal of nephrology - 1 Jan 2000
Danpure C J
Abstract excerpt
The autosomal recessive disease primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) is caused by a deficiency of the liver-specific intermediary metabolic enzyme alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase (AGT). In a third of all Caucasian PH1 patients, disease in caused by an unparalleled intracellular phenomenon in which AGT is mistargeted from one group of intracellular organelles (the peroxisomes) to another (the mitochondria) where...
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