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Arfaptin 2 regulates the aggregation of mutant huntingtin protein.
Nature cell biology - 1 Mar 2002
Peters Peter J, Ning Ke, Palacios Felipe, Boshans Rita L, Kazantsev Aleksey, Thompson Leslie M, Woodman Ben, Bates Gillian P, D'Souza-Schorey Crislyn
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder. Here we demonstrate that expression of arfaptin 2/POR1 (partner of Rac1) in cultured cells induces the formation of pericentriolar and nuclear aggregates, which morphologically resemble mutant huntingtin aggregates characterist...
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