L1,MeCP2調

Alysson R Muotri1, Maria C N Marchetto, Nicole G Coufal

  • 1University of California San Diego, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics/Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0695, USA. muotri@ucsd.edu

Nature
|November 19, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

長い間隔の核元素-1 (LINE-1またはL1s) のレトロトランポゾンが脳で動員され,特にメチル-CpG結合タンパク質2 (MeCP2) が欠けると動員されます. レット症候群で見られるMeCP2変異は,L1の逆転移感受性を高め,神経学的疾患に影響を及ぼします.

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