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Identification of novel pathogenic variants of CUBN in patients with isolated proteinuria.

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Department of Nephrology, Wuhan Children's Hospital (Wuhan Maternal and Child Healthcare Center), Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China.

Background: Although proteinuria is long recognized as an independent risk factor for progressive chronic kidney diseases, not all forms of proteinuria are detrimental to kidney function, one of which is isolated proteinuria caused by cubilin (CUBN)-specific mutations. CUBN encodes an endocytic receptor, initially found to be responsible for the Imerslund-Gräsbeck syndrome (IGS; OMIM #261100) characterized by a combined phenotype of megaloblastic anemia and proteinuria.

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Reference intervals and stability of haptocorrin and holotranscobalamin in Danish children and elderly.

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Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Background: Haptocorrin (HC) and holotranscobalamin (holoTC) carry vitamin B12 (B12) in the circulation and can be useful biomarkers for evaluating B12 status. The concentration of both proteins depends on age, but data on reference intervals for children and the elderly are sparse. Similarly, not much is known about the effect of preanalytical factors.

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Protein function is a direct consequence of its sequence, structure, and the arrangement at the binding site. Bioinformatics using sequence analysis is typically used to gain a first insight into protein function. Protein structures, on the other hand, provide a higher resolution platform into understanding functions.

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