Publication Date:
1995-01-27
Description:
Lamellar ichthyosis is a severe congenital skin disorder characterized by generalized large scales and variable redness. Affected individuals in three families exhibited drastically reduced keratinocyte transglutaminase (TGK) activity. In two of these families, expression of TGK transcripts was diminished or abnormal and no TGK protein was detected. Homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations of the TGK gene were identified in all families. These data suggest that defects in TGK cause lamellar ichthyosis and that intact cross-linkage of cornified cell envelopes is required for epidermal tissue homeostasis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Huber, M -- Rettler, I -- Bernasconi, K -- Frenk, E -- Lavrijsen, S P -- Ponec, M -- Bon, A -- Lautenschlager, S -- Schorderet, D F -- Hohl, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1995 Jan 27;267(5197):525-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Dermatology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vandois (CHUV), Hopital de Beaumont, Lausanne, Switzerland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7824952" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Sequence
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Cell Membrane/metabolism
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Cells, Cultured
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Codon
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Female
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Gene Deletion
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Genetic Linkage
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Heterozygote
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Homozygote
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Humans
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Ichthyosis, Lamellar/enzymology/*genetics
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Introns
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Keratinocytes/*enzymology/ultrastructure
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Male
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Membrane Proteins/metabolism
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Pedigree
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Point Mutation
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Protein Precursors/metabolism
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Transglutaminases/*genetics/metabolism
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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