Altered oligomeric states in pathogenic ALS2 variants associated with juvenile motor neuron diseases cause loss of ALS2-mediated endosomal function

Kai Sato, Asako Otomo, Mahoko Takahashi Ueda, Yui Hiratsuka, Kyoko Suzuki-Utsunomiya, Junya Sugiyama, Shuji Murakoshi, Shun Mitsui, Suzuka Ono, So Nakagawa,

Journal of Biological Chemistry · 2018 · 33 citations · 51 references

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disclosed that these missense mutations led to a decrease in protein stability. Collectively, disorganized higher structures of ALS2 variants might explain their impaired endosomal localization and the stability, leading to loss of the ALS2 function.

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