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A Micro-Engineered Heart Tissue Model of Desmin-related Cardiomyopathy Caused by Mutant αB Crystallin
2025-10-03
Abstract excerpt
Protein quality control (PQC) is essential for maintaining sarcomere integrity in cardiomyocytes. α Crystallin B chain (CRYAB) R120G mutation disrupts CRYAB’s chaperone activity, leading to aggregation of CRYAB and its client proteins (including Desmin), leading to Desmin-related cardiomyopathy (DRM). Prior experimental systems for modeling DRM linked to CRYAB require massive overexpression of CRYAB mutant isoform...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0a40aa3e-954b-5544-b205-b044deaeaeae
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- 10.1101/2025.10.02.680018
