Wednesday, September 21, 2011

1st iissue off EFACTS NEWS

The EFACTS (European Friedreich’s Ataxia Consortium for Translational Studies) Consortium will publish the newsletter EFACTS NEWS aimed at communicating the activities of the Network and progress in FRDA research to affected families, the general public, health care professionals and the scientific community. The newsletter will be published annually and the issues will appear on the EFACTS Website

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Mutation in Fe-S scaffold Isu bypasses frataxin deletion

Biochem. J. (2011) Immediate Publication, doi:10.1042/BJ20111637

Heeyong Yoon, Ramesh Golla, Emmanuel Lesuisse, Jayashree Pain, Jason Donald, Elise R. Lyver, Debkumar Pain and Andrew Dancis
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.

Keywords: Frataxin, Friedreich’s ataxia, iron homeostasis, Fe-S cluster assembly, cysteine desulfurase (Nfs1), accessory protein (Isd11), scaffold protein (Isu), single amino acid substitution.

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Orphan Drugs, Big Pharma

Human Gene Therapy. September 2011, 22(9): 1035-1038. doi:10.1089/hum.2011.2515.

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