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SUBMITTER: Aguilar A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6693013 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aguilar Alicia A Weber Josiane J Boscher Julie J Freund Monique M Ziessel Catherine C Eckly Anita A Magnenat Stéphanie S Bourdon Catherine C Hechler Béatrice B Mangin Pierre H PH Gachet Christian C Lanza François F Léon Catherine C
Blood advances 20190801 15
The biogenesis of lysosome related organelles is defective in Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS), a disorder characterized by oculocutaneous albinism and platelet dense granule (DG) defects. The first animal model of HPS was the fawn-hooded rat, harboring a spontaneous mutation inactivating the small guanosine triphosphatase <i>Rab38</i> This leads to coat color dilution associated with the absence of DGs and lung morphological defects. Another RAB38 mutant, the <i>cht</i> mouse, has normal DGs, wh ...[more]