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Biochemistry, cell biology, and genetics

Cytoskeleton, cilia, and motor proteins

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A 3-week-old boy has profuse watery diarrhea that began during the first week of life and continues when enteral feeding is withheld. He has lost weight despite nutritional support. Duodenal biopsy shows a severely reduced apical brush border and membrane-lined inclusions containing short surface projections within enterocytes.

Which polymer normally forms the structural core of the depleted apical projections?