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Huntingtin: an iron-regulated protein essential for normal nuclear and perinuclear organelles.
Human molecular genetics - 22 Nov 2000
Hilditch-Maguire P, Trettel F, Passani L A, Auerbach A, Persichetti F, MacDonald M E
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD), with its selective neuronal cell loss, is caused by an elongated glutamine tract in the huntingtin protein. To discover the pathways that are candidates for the protein's normal and/or abnormal function, we surveyed 19 classes of organelle in Hdh(ex4/5)/Hdh(ex4/5) knock-out compared with wild-type embryonic stem cells to identify any that might be affected by huntingtin deficiency....
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