Hidehiko Okuma, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar (2016-2021)
Anesthesiologist, Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa City, Japan
Biography
N-terminal domain on dystroglycan enables LARGE1 to extend matriglycan on α-dystroglycan and prevents muscular dystrophy.
Okuma, H., Hord, J. M., Chandel, I., Venzke, D., Anderson. M. E., Walimbe, A. S., Joseph, S., Gastel, Z., Hara, Y., Saito, F., Matsumura, K., Campbell, K. P. (2023) eLife 12:e82811. doi: 10.7554/eLife.82811 PMID: 36723429 PMCID: PMC9917425
![Hide Okuma](/sites/wellstone.medicine.uiowa.edu/files/styles/square__768_x_768/public/2023-12/Hide%20Okuma.jpg?h=bf372811&itok=d73cumgx)