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PRX (gene)

Periaxin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRX gene.[1][2][3]

The PRX gene encodes L- and S-periaxin, proteins of myelinating Schwann cells, and is mutated in Dejerine-Sottas syndrome (MIM 145900) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4F (MIM 145900).[supplied by OMIM][3]

References

References

  1. Gillespie CS, Sherman DL, Fleetwood-Walker SM, Cottrell DF, Tait S, Garry EM, Wallace VC, Ure J, Griffiths IR, Smith A, Brophy PJ (Jun 2000). “Peripheral demyelination and neuropathic pain behavior in periaxin-deficient mice”. Neuron. 26 (2): 523–31. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(00)81184-8. PMID 10839370.
  2. Gillespie CS, Lee M, Fantes JF, Brophy PJ (Jul 1997). “The gene encoding the Schwann cell protein periaxin localizes on mouse chromosome 7 (Prx)”. Genomics. 41 (2): 297–8. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4630. PMID 9143514.
  3. 3.0 3.1 “Entrez Gene: PRX periaxin”.
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