SIL1 deficiency causes degenerative changes of peripheral nerves and neuromuscular junctions in fish, mice and human

Background: Marinesco-Sjögren Syndrome (MSS) is a rare neuromuscular condition caused by recessive mutations in the SIL1 gene resulting in the absence of functional SIL1 protein, a co-chaperone for the major ER chaperone, BiP. As BiP is decisive for proper protein processing, loss of SIL1 results in...

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Main Authors: Vietxuan Phan, Dan Cox, Silvia Cipriani, Sally Spendiff, Stephan Buchkremer, Emily O'Connor, Rita Horvath, Hans Hilmar Goebel, Denisa Hathazi, Hanns Lochmüller, Tatjana Straka, Rüdiger Rudolf, Joachim Weis, Andreas Roos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-04-01
Series:Neurobiology of Disease
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969996118307502

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