Mouse With Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 Finds RNA Binding Proteins At Heart Of Problem

A new mouse model for myotonic dystrophy -- the most common form of adult-onset muscular dystrophy -- helped researchers show that levels of CUGBP1, a protein that binds and controls the activity of the genetic material RNA, increase early in affected cells of the animals with the disease. This means CUGBP1 plays a key role in the disorder.