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The mh cell line was derived from primary fibroblasts taken from muscle of homozygous mocha (mh/mh) mice. As a result of the mocha mutation, the fibroblasts are deficient in the delta subunit of the adaptor-like protein complex, AP-3. The cell line can be used to investigate both the assembly of AP-3 complexes and AP-3 function, and may serve as a model for Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS), a platelet storage pool deficiency syndrome.
