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SUBMITTER: Grozdanov PN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2773269 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grozdanov Petar N PN Fernandez-Fuentes Narcis N Fiser Andras A Meier U Thomas UT
Human molecular genetics 20090904 23
X-linked dyskeratosis congenita (DC) is a rare bone marrow failure syndrome caused by mostly missense mutations in the pseudouridine synthase NAP57 (dyskerin/Cbf5). As part of H/ACA ribonucleoproteins (RNPs), NAP57 is important for the biogenesis of ribosomes, spliceosomal small nuclear RNPs, microRNAs and the telomerase RNP. DC mutations concentrate in the N- and C-termini of NAP57 but not in its central catalytic domain raising questions as to their impact. We demonstrate that the N- and C-ter ...[more]