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Through its capability to transiently pack and unpack our genome, chromatin is a key player in the regulation of gene expression. Single-molecule approaches have recently complemented conventional biochemical and biophysical techniques to decipher the complex mechanisms ruling chroma...
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PMID: 21810177
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We show that the combined action of Isw1 and Chd1 nucleosome-spacing enzymes is required to maintain this organization. In the absence of these enzymes, regular positioning of the majority of nucleosomes is lost. Exceptions include the region upstream of the promoter, the +1 nucleosome, and a subset...
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PMID: 21940898
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We studied how nucleotides bind to PAN. Although PAN has six identical subunits, it binds ATPs in pairs, and its subunits exhibit three conformational states with high, low, or no affinity for ATP. When PAN binds two ATPγS molecules or two ATPγS plus two ADP molecules, it is maximally active in bi...
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PMID: 21335235
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The acquisition of multidrug resistance poses a serious problem in chemotherapy, and new types of transporters have been actively sought to overcome it. In the present study, poly(ethylene glycol)-conjugated (PEGylated) multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were prepared and explored as drug carrie...
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PMID: 20970441
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We demonstrate that RNAi also functions to repress genomic elements other than constitutive heterochromatin. Using DNA adenine methyltransferase identification (DamID), we show that the RNAi proteins Dcr1 and Rdp1 physically associate with some euchromatic genes, noncoding RNA genes and retrotranspo...
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PMID: 21151114
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We show that human CDC50 proteins each bind multiple class-1 P(4)-ATPases, and that in all cases examined, association with a CDC50 subunit is required for P(4)-ATPase export from the ER. Moreover, we find that phosphorylation of the catalytically important Asp residue in human P(4)-ATPases ATP8B1 a...
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PMID: 20961850
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Gambogic acid (GB) is an important anti-cancer drug candidate, but the target protein by which it exerts its anti-cancer effects has not been identified. This study is the first to show that GB inhibits heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and down-regulates TNF-α/NF-κB in HeLa cells. The effects of GB o...
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PMID: 21074517
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A complex system of molecular milestones ensures labelling of the genome, driving its organization and functions. These milestones correspond to particular marks associated to active and repressed genes, as well as to non-coding regions or those containing repetitive sequences. Most of these marks a...
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PMID: 21047719
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We continue to make progress in our understanding of the regulation of gastric acid secretion in health and disease. A better understanding of the pathways and mechanisms regulating acid secretion should lead to improved management of patients with acid-induced disorders as well as those who secrete...
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PMID: 20838342
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We report here the solution NMR structure of the full-length MinE dimer from Neisseria gonorrhoeae, with two parts of the N-terminal domain forming an integral part of the dimerization interface. Unexpectedly, solvent accessibility is highly restricted for residues that were previously hypothesized...
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PMID: 20937912
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C Caron,
C Lestrat,
S Marsal,
E Escoffier,
S Curtet,
V Virolle,
P Barbry,
A Debernardi,
C Brambilla,
E Brambilla,
S Rousseaux and
S Khochbin
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We show here that ATAD2 is highly expressed in testis as well as in many cancers of different origins and that its high expression is a strong predictor of rapid mortality in lung and breast cancers. These observations suggest that ATAD2 acts on upstream and basic cellular processes to enhance oncog...
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PMID: 20581866
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We did not recognize correlations of LYVE-1/+ vessel density to the distribution of the myofibre spectrum in trained skeletal muscle.
It was concluded that lymphatic vessels are rather normally distributed in skeletal muscle not dependent on a predominant myofibre type. The partial n...
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PMID: 20863269
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We have studied the molecular evolution of two gene families specific for primates: POLR2J of the transcription system and PMS2 of the MMR repair system. The appearance and improvement of the genetic structure in each of the families was shown to strongly correlate with the main stages of the higher...
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PMID: 21061629
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We developed an in vitro assay sensitive to proofreading of 5' splice site cleavage. We inactivated spliceosomes by disrupting a metal-ligand interaction at the catalytic center and discovered that, when the DEAH box ATPase Prp16 was disabled, these spliceosomes catalyzed 5' splice site cleavage but...
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PMID: 20705241
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We have carried out a comprehensive analysis of cytoplasmic maturation, ordering the known steps into a coherent pathway. Maturation is initiated by the ATPase Drg1. Downstream, assembly of the ribosome stalk is essential for the release of Tif6. The stalk recruits GTPases during translation. Becaus...
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PMID: 20670889
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We present an actual recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of patients with Wilson's disease....
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PMID: 20842827
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We examined the localization and function of DmATP7, the single Drosophila melanogaster orthologue, in cultured D. melanogaster and mammalian cells to explore the conservation of P(IB)-type ATPase function. Comparative genomic analysis demonstrated motifs involved in basolateral targeting and retent...
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PMID: 20372979
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We demonstrate that YFP-fusion proteins of both cpHsc70-1 and cpHsc70-2 are predominantly stromal, though low levels were detected in the thylakoid membrane. Both genes are ubiquitously expressed at high levels in both seedlings and adult plants. We further show that both cpHsc70-1 and cpHsc70-2 har...
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PMID: 20506024
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The (pro)renin receptor is a protein that binds prorenin and renin in tissues, leading to their activation and, at the same time, to the initiation of intracellular signaling. The activation of local renin-angiotensin systems may play an important role in tissue damage induced by cardiovascular dise...
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PMID: 20505655
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Wen Liu,
Bogdan Tanasa,
Oksana V Tyurina,
Tian Yuan Zhou,
Reto Gassmann,
Wei Ting Liu,
Kenneth A Ohgi,
Chris Benner,
Ivan Garcia-Bassets,
Aneel K Aggarwal,
Arshad Desai,
Pieter C Dorrestein,
Christopher K Glass and
Michael G Rosenfeld
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We report that the PHD and Jumonji C (JmjC) domain-containing protein, PHF8, while using multiple substrates, including H3K9me1/2 and H3K27me2, also functions as an H4K20me1 demethylase. PHF8 is recruited to promoters by its PHD domain based on interaction with H3K4me2/3 and controls G1-S transition...
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PMID: 20622854
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Our present knowledge on the cellular physiology of P4 ATPases is mostly derived from studies in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where P4 ATPases play a pivotal role in the biogenesis of intracellular transport vesicles, polarized protein transport and protein maturation. In contrast, the physio...
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PMID: 20450914
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We studied the localization of largely uncharacterized Aspergillus nidulans ESCRT-III using its key structural component Vps32 and the 'associated' component DidB(Did2). Vps32-GFP localizes to motile early endosomes as reported, but predominates in aggregates often associated with vacuoles due to in...
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PMID: 20362686
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We describe a new protocol for immunolabelling meiotic proteins that allows the detection of a large range of proteins on strongly spread chromosomes throughout the entire meiotic process. We used this method to immunodetect MLH1, a crucial component of the meiotic recombination machinery, and found...
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PMID: 20628250
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We report the results of a bioinformatic screen of the genomes of two bacteria and one archeon. We find that all three of these prokaryotes contain TA proteins in proportions approaching those found in eukaryotic cells, indicating that this protein group is present in all three domains of life. Alth...
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PMID: 20406421
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We investigated the role of the ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling enzyme SNF2H in mouse T cells; to date, SNF2H has not been investigated in T cells. We found that SNF2H repressed expression of IL-2 and other cytokines in activated cells. By contrast, SNF2H activated expression of IL-3. The ISWI co...
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PMID: 20471682
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We conclude that 3 h of lipid elevation fail to affect ATP synthesis despite marked reduction of whole body glucose uptake. This suggests that lipid-induced insulin resistance results primarily from mechanisms decreasing glucose uptake rather than from direct interference of fatty acid metabolites w...
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PMID: 20442322
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We have sought evidence that arachidonic acid (AA) induces mitochondrial depolarization in isolated myocytes by a lipoxygenase (LOX)-dependent mechanism and that such depolarization might contribute to arrhythmogenesis following ischemia-reperfusion injury. A method was developed for measuring mitoc...
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PMID: 20435853
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We analysed the effect of CJZ3, a lomerizine derivative, on the adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase) activity of human P-glycoprotein. The results showed that the basal P-gp ATPase activity was increased by CJZ3 with half-maximal activity concentration (Km) of 6.8 +/- 1.5 microM, CJZ3 may interact with...
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PMID: 20662321
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Polyphosphates are used in the meat industry to increase the water holding capacity of meat products. Tripolyphosphate (TPP) is a commonly used polyphosphate and it is metabolized into pyrophosphate and monophosphate in meat. The enzymes responsible for its metabolism have not been fully characteriz...
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PMID: 20416813
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We elaborated a structural explanation for this auto-inhibitory effect of IQ2 on myosin function. We employed analytical ultracentrifugation, circular dichroism, and surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy to investigate structural and functional properties of a myosin heavy chain (MYH) head-rod frag...
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PMID: 20460111
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We demonstrate that glutamylation, and in particular the generation of long glutamate side chains, promotes the severing of microtubules. In human cells, the generation of long side chains induces spastin-dependent microtubule disassembly and, consistently, only microtubules modified by long glutama...
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PMID: 20530212
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We have reported that Plasmodium falciparum genome contains a number of DEAD box helicases. In the present study we report the cloning, expression and characterization of one of the novel members of DEAD box family from P. falciparum. Our results indicate that it is a homologue of Has1p from yeast a...
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PMID: 20153446
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We have scrutinized the distribution of the SopD T3S signals using in silico analysis and a targeted deletion approach. We show that amino acid residues 6-10 act as the N-terminal secretion signal for Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1) T3S. Furthermore, we show that two putative C-terminal he...
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PMID: 20185511
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These results suggest that recent outbreaks in Japanese serows are caused by ORFVs genetically closely related to the viruses in earlier outbreaks and that these genetically stable ORFVs have circulated among Japanese serows over a long period of time....
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PMID: 20124763
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Bacteria, Archaea and Eukaryotes have evolved a plethora of mechanisms to translocate proteins across their various membranes. The bacterial Sec pathway is ubiquitous and essential for cell viability and is used by most proteins destined for the inner membrane, the periplasm or beyond. In bacteria,...
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PMID: 20444093
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We have discovered that the cryptic endonuclease activity reported for the isolated C-terminal domain of the transposase MuA [Wu Z, Chaconas G (1995) A novel DNA binding and nuclease activity in domain III of Mu transposase: Evidence for a catalytic region involved in donor cleavage. EMBO J 14:3835-...
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PMID: 20167799
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We have found that the ribosome can translate mutated lariat intermediates. By glycerol gradient analysis, we have found that the spliceosome can dissociate mutated lariat intermediates in vivo in a manner that requires the DEAH box ATPase Prp43p. Through an in vitro assay, we demonstrate that Prp43...
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PMID: 20463285
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We analyze the consequences cardiolipin has on the conformation, activity, and localization of the protein translocation machinery. Cardiolipin tightly associates with the SecYEG protein channel complex, whereupon it stabilizes the dimer, creates a high-affinity binding surface for the SecA ATPase,...
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PMID: 20479269
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We find these rates are not distinguishable at rest. We used a transient anoxic perturbation of steady state energy balance to decrease phosphocreatine (PCr) reversibly and to measure the rates of ATPase and of lactate production without muscle activation or contraction. The rate of glycolytic ATP s...
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PMID: 20308252
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We investigated the role of five basic residues within or near transmembrane (TM) 2 of BCRP in transport activity. Lys(452), Lys(453), His(457), Arg(465), and Lys(473) were replaced with Ala or Asp. K452A, K453D, H457A, R465A, and K473A were stably expressed in human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells, an...
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PMID: 20203106
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The recent discovery of novel high-affinity and selective dopamine D3 receptor (DA D3R) antagonists and partial agonists has provided tools with which to further elucidate the role DA D3R plays in substance abuse. The present study was conducted to evaluate the transport, metabolism, pharmacokinetic...
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PMID: 20228156
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We reported that ATP7A is expressed in the human vasculature. In the present study, we investigated the cellular expression of ATP7A in atherosclerotic lesions of LDL receptor (-/-) mice. Subsequently, we examined the role of ATP7A in regulating the oxidation of LDL in a macrophage cell model. We ob...
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PMID: 19965596
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We review recent advances in studying the dynamic interactions of macromolecular machineries for metal regulation and transport at the single-molecule level: (1) The development of engineered DNA Holliday junctions as single-molecule reporters for metalloregulator-DNA interactions, focusing onMerR-f...
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PMID: 20442963
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Ribosome biogenesis is a fundamental process that provides cells with the molecular factories for cellular protein production. Accordingly, its misregulation lies at the heart of several hereditary diseases (e.g., Diamond-Blackfan anemia). The process of ribosome assembly comprises the processing an...
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PMID: 19879902
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The components of the mitochondrial proteome represent a mosaic of dual genetic origin: while most mitochondrial proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and imported into the organelle following synthesis in the cytosol, a small number of proteins is encoded by the mitochondrial genome. Though small i...
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PMID: 19962410
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We used an integrative approach to probe the significance of the interaction between the relay loop and converter domain of the myosin molecular motor from Drosophila melanogaster indirect flight muscle. During the myosin mechanochemical cycle, ATP-induced twisting of the relay loop is hypothesized...
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PMID: 20362584
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Menkes disease (MD) is a lethal multisystemic disorder of copper metabolism. Progressive neurodegeneration and connective tissue disturbances, together with the peculiar 'kinky' hair are the main manifestations. MD is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait, and as expected the vast majority of pat...
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PMID: 19888294
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We investigated Atp10a allelic expression in the brain, DNA methylation status, and sensitivity to mutations of the PWS imprinting center, an element required for imprinted gene expression in the region. We report that Atp10a is biallelically expressed in both the newborn and adult brain, and Atp10a...
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PMID: 19894069
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I and phase II anticancer clinical trials with first-generation inhibitors, although sometimes disappointing, have yet to report a forbidding side-effect inherent to the inhibition of this chaperone, which has a very complex and widespread role in cell biochemistry. Research in the field has started...
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PMID: 20230904
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We show that the disease locus on bovine chromosome 11 harbors the SPAST gene that, when mutated, is responsible for the human disorder hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP). Initially, SPAST encoding Spastin was considered a less likely candidate gene for BSD since the modes of inheritance as well as...
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PMID: 19714378
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Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a group of rare heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorders characterized by metabolic defects in biliary proteins involved in the formation and transfer of bile acids in the liver. The genotype-phenotype correlation is not always clear. Mutati...
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PMID: 20414253
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The regulatory function of alpha(1B)-adrenoceptors in mammalian heart homeostasis is controversial. The objective of the present study was to characterize the expression/activity of key proteins implicated in cardiac calcium handling (Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase and Ca(2+)-ATPases) and growth (ERK1/2, JNK1/2...
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PMID: 20414585
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We report the first Australian families with inclusion-body myopathy, Paget's disease of the bone and frontotemporal dementia (IBMPFD). The clinical characteristics of the two pedigrees are described including a previously undescribed phenotypic feature of pyramidal tract dysfunction in one family m...
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PMID: 20335036
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