descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 1997 English Publisher:Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Journal:Current Opinion in Neurology, volume 10, pages 436-442 (issn: 1350-7540,

Authors: Michal Opas; Marek Michalak;

doi: 10.1097/00019052-199710000-00014

pmid: 9330892

Functions of dystrophin and dystrophin associated proteins

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Abstract

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 dystrophin-glycoprotein complex are responsible for several phenotypes of muscular dystrophy.

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Keywords

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

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