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Interaction of Huntington disease protein with transcriptional activator Sp1.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Mar 2002
Li Shi-Hua, Cheng Anna L, Zhou Hui, Lam Suzanne, Rao Manjula, Li He, Li Xiao-Jiang
Abstract excerpt
Polyglutamine expansion causes Huntington disease (HD) and at least seven other neurodegenerative diseases. In HD, N-terminal fragments of huntingtin with an expanded glutamine tract are able to aggregate and accumulate in the nucleus. Although intranuclear huntingtin affects the expression of numerous genes, the mechanism of this nuclear effect is unknown. Here we report that huntingtin interacts with Sp1, a...
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