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. 2010 Feb;51(2):223-5.
doi: 10.1194/jlr.E004366. Epub 2009 Nov 25.

Prelamin A prenylation and the treatment of progeria

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Prelamin A prenylation and the treatment of progeria

Howard J Worman. J Lipid Res. 2010 Feb.
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Fig. 1.
Posttranslational processing of wild-type prelamin A to lamin A (left) and generation of progerin in HGPS (right). See text for details. FT, protein fanesyltransferase; ICMT, isoprenylcysteine carboxyl methyltransferase.

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