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SUBMITTER: Heard ME
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4847768 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

PLoS genetics 20160427 4
Collagen is a major component of the extracellular matrix and its integrity is essential for connective tissue and organ function. The importance of proteins involved in intracellular collagen post-translational modification, folding and transport was recently highlighted from studies on recessive forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). Here we describe the critical role of SC65 (Synaptonemal Complex 65, P3H4), a leprecan-family member, as part of an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) complex with prolyl ...[more]