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SUBMITTER: Chandra G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6639303 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chandra Goutam G Defour Aurelia A Mamchoui Kamel K Pandey Kalpana K Mishra Soumya S Mouly Vincent V Sreetama SenChandra S Mahad Ahmad Mohammad M Mahjneh Ibrahim I Morizono Hiroki H Pattabiraman Nagarajan N Menon Anant K AK Jaiswal Jyoti K JK
Cell death discovery 20190718
Autosomal recessive mutations in Anoctamin 5 (<i>ANO5/TMEM16E</i>), a member of the transmembrane 16 (TMEM16) family of Ca<sup>2+</sup>-activated ion channels and phospholipid scramblases, cause adult-onset muscular dystrophies (limb girdle muscular dystrophy 2L (LGMD2L) and Miyoshi Muscular Dystrophy (MMD3). However, the molecular role of ANO5 is unclear and <i>ANO5</i> knockout mouse models show conflicting requirements of ANO5 in muscle. To study the role of ANO5 in human muscle cells we gene ...[more]