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SUBMITTER: Ribeiro I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3037412 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ribeiro Inês I Yuan Lin L Tanentzapf Guy G Dowling James J JJ Kiger Amy A
PLoS genetics 20110210 2
Muscles must maintain cell compartmentalization when remodeled during development and use. How spatially restricted adhesions are regulated with muscle remodeling is largely unexplored. We show that the myotubularin (mtm) phosphoinositide phosphatase is required for integrin-mediated myofiber attachments in Drosophila melanogaster, and that mtm-depleted myofibers exhibit hallmarks of human XLMTM myopathy. Depletion of mtm leads to increased integrin turnover at the sarcolemma and an accumulation ...[more]