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ArticleClinical lipidology2012

The juvenile Batten disease protein, CLN3, and its role in regulating anterograde and retrograde post-Golgi trafficking.

Susan L Cotman, John F Staropoli

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Article in Clinical lipidology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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55citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 87 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Susan L CotmanMolecular Neurogenetics Unit, Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, 185 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
John F Staropoli
Massachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

Endocytosis in JNCLR01NS073813 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI COTMAN, SUSAN LYNN · 2011 to 2015
$1.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS073813
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Loss-of-function mutations in CLN3 are responsible for juvenile-onset neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL), or Batten disease, which is an incurable lysosomal disease that manifests with vision loss, followed by seizures and progressive neurodegeneration, robbing children of motor skills, speech and cognition, and eventually leading to death in the second or third decade of life. Emerging clinical evidence points to JNCL pathology outside of the CNS, including the cardiovascular system. The CLN3 gene encodes an unusual transmembrane protein, CLN3 or battenin, whose elusive function has been the subject of intense study for more than 10 years. Owing to the detailed characterization of a large number of disease models, our knowledge of CLN3 protein function is finally coming into focus. This review will describe the most current understanding of CLN3 structure, function and dysfunction in JNCL.

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PMID22545070
PMCPMC3334816
OpenAlexW2115679330

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