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Dystrophin: The protein product of the duchenne muscular dystrophy locus

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The identification of the mdx mouse as an animal model for DMD has important implications with regard to the etiology of the lethal DMD phenotype, and the protein dystrophin is named because of its identification via the isolation of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 1987-12-24. It has received 4357 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: mdx mouse & Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

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The Complete Sequence of Dystrophin Predicts a Rod-Shaped Cytoskeletal Protein

TL;DR: The complete sequence of the human Duchenne muscular dystrophy cDNA has been determined and dystrophin shares many features with the cytoskeletal protein spectrin and alpha-actinin and is likely to adopt a rod shape about 150 nm in length.
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The muscular dystrophies.

TL;DR: Meryon’s observations were neglected for many years for various reasons, and the disorder became eponymously associated with Duchenne in Paris, who detailed the clinical and muscle histology some years later.
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Primary structure of dystrophin-associated glycoproteins linking dystrophin to the extracellular matrix

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the dramatic reduction in the 156K DAG in Duchenne muscular dystrophy leads to a loss of a linkage between the sarcolemma and extra-cellular matrix and that this may render muscle fibres more susceptible to necrosis is supported.
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A role for the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex as a transmembrane linker between laminin and actin

TL;DR: The results support a role for the striated muscle dystrophin-glycoprotein complex in linking the actin- based cytoskeleton with the extracellular matrix and suggest that dystophin and dystroglycan may play substantially different functional roles in nonmuscle tissues.
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Cleavage of Structural Proteins during the Assembly of the Head of Bacteriophage T4

TL;DR: Using an improved method of gel electrophoresis, many hitherto unknown proteins have been found in bacteriophage T4 and some of these have been identified with specific gene products.
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Cleavage of structural proteins during the assemble of the head of bacterio-phage T4

U. K. Laemmli
- 01 Jan 1970 - 
TL;DR: Using an improved method of gel electrophoresis, many hitherto unknown proteins have been found in bacteriophage T4 and some of these have been identified with specific gene products as mentioned in this paper.
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Electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets: procedure and some applications.

TL;DR: A method has been devised for the electrophoretic transfer of proteins from polyacrylamide gels to nitrocellulose sheets that results in quantitative transfer of ribosomal proteins from gels containing urea.
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A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity

TL;DR: A technique for conveniently radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity is described, and these "oligolabeled" DNA fragments serve as efficient probes in filter hybridization experiments.

A technique for radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity

TL;DR: In this article, a technique for conveniently radiolabeling DNA restriction endonuclease fragments to high specific activity is described, where DNA fragments are purified from agarose gels directly by ethanol precipitation and are then denatured and labeled with the large fragment of DNA polymerase I, using random oligonucleotides as primers.
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