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Biglycan meets utrophin [PDF]

Science-Business eXchange, 2011
Tivorsan Pharmaceuticals is working with a Brown University team to optimize recombinant biglycan for delivery to patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The work builds on the researchers' finding that the extracellular matrix glycoprotein decreases muscle pathology and improves muscle function in dystrophic mice.
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Marginal level dystrophin expression improves clinical outcome in a strain of dystrophin/utrophin double knockout mice. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Inactivation of all utrophin isoforms in dystrophin-deficient mdx mice results in a strain of utrophin knockout mdx (uko/mdx) mice. Uko/mdx mice display severe clinical symptoms and die prematurely as in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients.
Dejia Li, Yongping Yue, Dongsheng Duan
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Preventing phosphorylation of dystroglycan ameliorates the dystrophic phenotype in mdx mouse [PDF]

, 2012
Loss of dystrophin protein due to mutations in the DMD gene causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Dystrophin loss also leads to the loss of the dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) from the sarcolemma which contributes to the dystrophic phenotype ...
Andrew Mitchell, Andrä, Assereto, Batchelor, Bonuccelli, Bonuccelli, Chris J. Moore, Clerk, Cluchague, Cox, Deconinck, Dominic J. Wells, Ervasti, Ervasti, Ervasti, Foster, Gaynor Miller, Gazzerro, Goyenvalle, Grady, Greenberg, Gundesli, Hoyte, Hu, Ilsley, James, Judge, Karpati, Konieczny, Lipscomb, Matsumura, McArthur, Miller, Moore, Morgan, Nguyen, Otte, Pereboev, Pichavant, Pulkkinen, Rebecca Terry, Rezniczek, Robert Piggott, Schröder, Sharp, Smith, Sotgia, Sotgia, Steve J. Winder, T. Neil Dear, Thompson, Thompson, Tinsley, Tinsley, Tracy La Riviere, Winder   +55 more
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WH2 and proline-rich domains of WASP-family proteins collaborate to accelerate actin filament elongation. [PDF]

, 2017
WASP-family proteins are known to promote assembly of branched actin networks by stimulating the filament-nucleating activity of the Arp2/3 complex.
Akin, Orkun, Bieling, Peter, Fletcher, Daniel A, Hansen, Scott D, Hayden, Carl C, Li, Tai-De, Mullins, R Dyche   +6 more
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Disruption of the utrophin–actin interaction by monoclonal antibodies and prediction of an actin-binding surface of utrophin [PDF]

Biochemical Journal, 1998
Monoclonal antibody (mAb) binding sites in the N-terminal actin-binding domain of utrophin have been identified using phage-displayed peptide libraries, and the mAbs have been used to probe functional regions of utrophin involved in actin binding. mAbs were characterized for their ability to interact with the utrophin actin-binding domain and to affect
Glenn E. MORRIS, Nguyen thi MAN, Nguyen thi Ngoc HUYEN, Alexander PEREBOEV, John KENDRICK-JONES, Steven J. WINDER   +5 more
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Correlation of Utrophin Levels with the Dystrophin Protein Complex and Muscle Fibre Regeneration in Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy Muscle Biopsies.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a severe and currently incurable progressive neuromuscular condition, caused by mutations in the DMD gene that result in the inability to produce dystrophin. Lack of dystrophin leads to loss of muscle fibres and a reduction
Narinder Janghra, Jennifer E Morgan, Caroline A Sewry, Francis X Wilson, Kay E Davies, Francesco Muntoni, Jonathon Tinsley   +6 more
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Nitric Oxide and l-Arginine Cause an Accumulation of Utrophin at the Sarcolemma: A Possible Compensation for Dystrophin Loss in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Neurobiology of Disease, 1999
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe X-linked recessive disorder which results in progressive muscle degeneration, is due to a lack of dystrophin, a membrane cytoskeletal protein.
Emmanuel Chaubourt, Philippe Fossier, Gérard Baux, Christine Leprince, Maurice Israël, Sabine De La Porte   +5 more
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Drp2 and Periaxin Form Cajal Bands with Dystroglycan But Have Distinct Roles in Schwann Cell Growth [PDF]

, 2012
Cajal bands are cytoplasmic channels flanked by appositions where the abaxonal surface of Schwann cell myelin apposes and adheres to the overlying plasma membrane.
Brophy, Peter J., Gillespie, C. Stewart, Grove, Matthew, Sherman, Diane L., Wu, Lai Man N.   +4 more
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The crystal structures of dystrophin and utrophin spectrin repeats: implications for domain boundaries.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Dystrophin and utrophin link the F-actin cytoskeleton to the cell membrane via an associated glycoprotein complex. This functionality results from their domain organization having an N-terminal actin-binding domain followed by multiple spectrin-repeat ...
Muralidharan Muthu, Kylie A Richardson, Andrew J Sutherland-Smith   +2 more
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Matricellular Protein CCN5 Gene Transfer Ameliorates Cardiac and Skeletal Dysfunction in mdx/utrn (±) Haploinsufficient Mice by Reducing Fibrosis and Upregulating Utrophin Expression

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder characterized by progressive muscle degeneration due to dystrophin gene mutations. Patients with DMD initially experience muscle weakness in their limbs during adolescence.
Min Ho Song, Jimeen Yoo, Jae Gyun Oh, Hyun Kook, Woo Jin Park, Dongtak Jeong, Dongtak Jeong   +6 more
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