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SUBMITTER: Noorwez SM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1361689 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Noorwez Syed M SM Kuksa Vladimir V Imanishi Yoshikazu Y Zhu Li L Filipek Sławomir S Palczewski Krzysztof K Kaushal Shalesh S
The Journal of biological chemistry 20030201 16
Protein conformational disorders, which include certain types of retinitis pigmentosa, are a set of inherited human diseases in which mutant proteins are misfolded and often aggregated. Many opsin mutants associated with retinitis pigmentosa, the most common being P23H, are misfolded and retained within the cell. Here, we describe a pharmacological chaperone, 11-cis-7-ring retinal, that quantitatively induces the in vivo folding of P23H-opsin. The rescued protein forms pigment, acquires mature g ...[more]