Publication Date:
1992-02-28
Description:
The primary defect arising from Zellweger syndrome appears to be linked to impaired assembly of peroxisomes. A human complementary DNA has been cloned that complements the disease's symptoms (including defective peroxisome assembly) in fibroblasts from a patient with Zellweger syndrome. The cause of the syndrome in this patient was a point mutation that resulted in the premature termination of peroxisome assembly factor-1. The homozygous patient apparently inherited the mutation from her parents, each of whom was heterozygous for that mutation.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shimozawa, N -- Tsukamoto, T -- Suzuki, Y -- Orii, T -- Shirayoshi, Y -- Mori, T -- Fujiki, Y -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1992 Feb 28;255(5048):1132-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Pediatrics, Gifu University School of Medicine, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1546315" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Base Sequence
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Cricetinae
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DNA Mutational Analysis
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Genes
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Genetic Complementation Test
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Humans
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Membrane Proteins/*genetics
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Microbodies/*ultrastructure
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry
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Pedigree
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Polymerase Chain Reaction
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Transfection
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Zellweger Syndrome/*genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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