Open AccessDystrophin makes a new connection
Author(s) -
Mitch Leslie
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
the journal of cell biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.414
H-Index - 380
eISSN - 1540-8140
pISSN - 0021-9525
DOI - 10.1083/jcb.1863iti2
Subject(s) - dystrophin , biology , cytoskeleton , duchenne muscular dystrophy , tangle , connection (principal bundle) , utrophin , microbiology and biotechnology , microtubule , computational biology , neuroscience , bioinformatics , genetics , pure mathematics , geometry , cell , mathematics
![Figure][1] The tidy microtubule lattice of a normal muscle (left) turns into a tangle when dystrophin is missing (right).Dystrophin, the protein absent in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is better at networking than researchers realized. The protein's links to two kinds of cytoskeletal
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