Impairment of protein trafficking upon overexpression and mutation of optineurin.

Glaucoma is a major blinding disease characterized by progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and axons. Optineurin is one of the candidate genes identified so far. A mutation of Glu(50) to Lys (E50K) has been reported to be associated with a more progressive and severe disease. Optineurin...

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Main Authors: BumChan Park, Hongyu Ying, Xiang Shen, Jeong-Seok Park, Ye Qiu, Rajalekshmy Shyam, Beatrice Y J T Yue
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2902519?pdf=render