Tragedy in a heartbeat: malfunctioning desmin causes skeletal and cardiac muscle disease

Mutation in BAG3 causes severe dominant childhood muscular dystrophy

(2008) Duygu Selcen et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Huntington’s disease: degradation of mutant huntingtin by autophagy

(2008) Sovan Sarkar et al.   FEBS Journal

Mice expressing L345P mutant desmin exhibit morphological and functional changes of skeletal and cardiac mitochondria

(2008) Anna Kostareva et al.   JOURNAL OF MUSCLE RESEARCH AND CELL MOTILITY

A Myopathy-linked Desmin Mutation Perturbs Striated Muscle Actin Filament Architecture

(2008) Gloria M. Conover et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Distinct muscle imaging patterns in myofibrillar myopathies

(2008) D. Fischer et al.   NEUROLOGY

Electron microscopy in myofibrillar myopathies reveals clues to the mutated gene

(2008) K.G. Claeys et al.   NEUROMUSCULAR DISORDERS

Autophagy is an adaptive response in desmin-related cardiomyopathy

(2008) P. Tannous et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversity of cardiomyopathy phenotypes caused by mutations in desmin

(2007) Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY