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SUBMITTER: Fujise K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9181712 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fujise Kenshiro K Noguchi Satoru S Takeda Tetsuya T
International journal of molecular sciences 20220603 11
Centronuclear myopathy (CNM) is a congenital myopathy characterised by centralised nuclei in skeletal myofibers. T-tubules, sarcolemmal invaginations required for excitation-contraction coupling, are disorganised in the skeletal muscles of CNM patients. Previous studies showed that various endocytic proteins are involved in T-tubule biogenesis and their dysfunction is tightly associated with CNM pathogenesis. <i>DNM2</i> and <i>BIN1</i> are two causative genes for CNM that encode essential membr ...[more]