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Medical Definition of Dystrophin

1. Protein (400 kD) from skeletal muscle that is missing in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Its exact role is not yet clear, though it seems to be associated with the cytoplasmic face of the sarcolemma and T tubules and may form part of the membrane cytoskeleton. There are sequence homologies with nonmuscle _ actinin and with spectrin. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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