Dystrophin is a large, rod-like cytoskeletal protein found at the inner surface of muscle fibers. Dystrophin is missing in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patients and is present in reduced amounts in Becker Muscular Dystrophy patients. The protein encoded by this gene is a peripheral membrane protein found associated with dystrophin and dystrophin-related proteins. This gene is a member of the syntrophin gene family, which contains at least two other structurally related genes.[3]
↑Ahn AH, Freener CA, Gussoni E, Yoshida M, Ozawa E, Kunkel LM (March 1996). "The three human syntrophin genes are expressed in diverse tissues, have distinct chromosomal locations, and each bind to dystrophin and its relatives". J Biol Chem. 271 (5): 2724–30. doi:10.1074/jbc.271.5.2724. PMID8576247.
↑Buechler C, Boettcher A, Bared SM, Probst MC, Schmitz G (May 2002). "The carboxyterminus of the ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 interacts with a beta2-syntrophin/utrophin complex". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 293 (2): 759–65. doi:10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00303-0. PMID12054535.
Further reading
Blake DJ (2002). "Dystrobrevin dynamics in muscle-cell signalling: a possible target for therapeutic intervention in Duchenne muscular dystrophy?". Neuromuscul. Disord. 12 Suppl 1: S110–7. doi:10.1016/S0960-8966(02)00091-3. PMID12206805.
Gee SH, Madhavan R, Levinson SR, Caldwell JH, Sealock R, Froehner SC (1998). "Interaction of muscle and brain sodium channels with multiple members of the syntrophin family of dystrophin-associated proteins". J. Neurosci. 18 (1): 128–37. PMID9412493.
Lumeng C, Phelps S, Crawford GE, Walden PD, Barald K, Chamberlain JS (1999). "Interactions between beta 2-syntrophin and a family of microtubule-associated serine/threonine kinases". Nat. Neurosci. 2 (7): 611–7. doi:10.1038/10165. PMID10404183.
Ort T, Maksimova E, Dirkx R, Kachinsky AM, Berghs S, Froehner SC, Solimena M (2001). "The receptor tyrosine phosphatase-like protein ICA512 binds the PDZ domains of beta2-syntrophin and nNOS in pancreatic beta-cells". Eur. J. Cell Biol. 79 (9): 621–30. doi:10.1078/0171-9335-00095. PMID11043403.
Marchand S, Stetzkowski-Marden F, Cartaud J (2001). "Differential targeting of components of the dystrophin complex to the postsynaptic membrane". Eur. J. Neurosci. 13 (2): 221–9. doi:10.1046/j.1460-9568.2001.01373.x. PMID11168526.
Buechler C, Boettcher A, Bared SM, Probst MC, Schmitz G (2002). "The carboxyterminus of the ATP-binding cassette transporter A1 interacts with a beta2-syntrophin/utrophin complex". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 293 (2): 759–65. doi:10.1016/S0006-291X(02)00303-0. PMID12054535.
Jones KJ, Compton AG, Yang N, Mills MA, Peters MF, Mowat D, Kunkel LM, Froehner SC, North KN (2003). "Deficiency of the syntrophins and alpha-dystrobrevin in patients with inherited myopathy". Neuromuscul. Disord. 13 (6): 456–67. doi:10.1016/S0960-8966(03)00066-X. PMID12899872.