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A 40-year-old female patient presents with mild anemia and reticulocytosis (increased number of reticulocytes in the blood), which worsens intermittently. In addition, splenomegaly and icterus (yellow discoloration of the sclera and mucous membranes) are present during physical examination. A blood smear was performed for these non-specific symptoms and it was evident by looking at it that some of the erythrocytes lacked central pallor. The diagnosis is hereditary spherocytosis, a genetic disease caused by a defect in the gene for the structural proteins of the erythrocyte cytoskeleton and membrane. The surface of the erythrocyte is reduced relative to its internal volume, causing a change in shape from biconcave to spherical. What are the names of the basic structural proteins of the erythrocyte membrane cytoskeleton?
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