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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
DISEASE(S): progressive skeletal muscle myopathy
SUBMITTER: Mark McNabb
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-733 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Witt Christian C CC Burkart Christoph C Labeit Dietmar D McNabb Mark M Wu Yiming Y Granzier Henk H Labeit Siegfried S
The EMBO journal 20060810 16
The precise assembly of the highly organized filament systems found in muscle is critically important for its function. It has been hypothesized that nebulin, a giant filamentous protein extending along the entire length of the thin filament, provides a blueprint for muscle thin filament assembly. To test this hypothesis, we generated a KO mouse model to investigate nebulin functions in vivo. Nebulin KO mice assemble thin filaments of reduced lengths and approximately 15% of their Z-disks are ab ...[more]