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PIP5K1B

Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase type-1 beta is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PIP5K1B gene.[1][2][3]

Abnormal silencing of the PIP5K1B gene contributes to the cytoskeletal defects seen in Friedreich’s ataxia.[4]

References

  1. Pook MA, Carvajal JJ, Doudney K, Hillermann R, Chamberlain S (Jul 1997). “Exon-intron structure of a 2.7-kb transcript of the STM7 gene with phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase activity”. Genomics. 42 (1): 170–2. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4726. PMID 9177790.
  2. Carvajal JJ, Pook MA, dos Santos M, Doudney K, Hillermann R, Minogue S, Williamson R, Hsuan JJ, Chamberlain S (Nov 1996). “The Friedreich’s ataxia gene encodes a novel phosphatidylinositol-4- phosphate 5-kinase”. Nat Genet. 14 (2): 157–62. doi:10.1038/ng1096-157. PMID 8841185.
  3. “Entrez Gene: PIP5K1B phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase, type I, beta”.
  4. Bayot A, Reichman S, Lebon S, Csaba Z, Aubry L, Sterkers G, Husson I, Rak M, Rustin P (2013). “Cis-silencing of PIP5K1B evidenced in Friedreich’s ataxia patient cells results in cytoskeleton anomalies”. Hum. Mol. Genet. 22 (14): 2894–904. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddt144. PMID 23552101.

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