Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Mutation in glutamate transporter homologue GltTk provides insights into pathologic mechanism of episodic ataxia 6

  • Emanuela Colucci,
  • Zaid R. Anshari,
  • Miyer F. Patiño-Ruiz,
  • Mariia Nemchinova,
  • Jacob Whittaker,
  • Dirk J. Slotboom,
  • Albert Guskov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37503-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Episodic ataxias (EAs) are rare neurological conditions that cause motor impairment. Here the authors investigated the molecular mechanism of such a pathological condition caused by a mutation of a conserved proline into arginine residue.