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In mice, deletion of the Rab8 protein disrupts organized molecular distribution to membranes of intestinal epithelial cells. Death by starvation follows, exactly as it does in humans with microvillus inclusion disease.

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Figure 1: The many functions of Rab8.

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  1. Departments of Ophthalmology and Cell and Developmental Biology, Aparna Lakkaraju and Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan are at the Margaret M. Dyson Vision Research Institute, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York 10021, USA. boulan@med.cornell.edu,
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