Article
Identification of ter94, Drosophila VCP, as a modulator of polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration.
Cell death and differentiation - 1 Mar 2002
Higashiyama H, Hirose F, Yamaguchi M, Inoue Y H, Fujikake N, Matsukage A, Kakizuka A
Abstract excerpt
We have successfully generated a Drosophila model of human polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases by the targeted expression of expanded-polyQ (ex-polyQ) in the Drosophila compound eye. The resulting eye degeneration is progressive and ex-polyQ dosage- and ex-polyQ length-dependent. Furthermore, intergenerational changes in repeat length were observed in homozygotes, with concomitant changes in the levels of...
Topics
- Adenosine Triphosphatases
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Cell Cycle Proteins
- Disease Models, Animal
- Drosophila Proteins
- Drosophila melanogaster
- Eye
- Mutation
- Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Peptides
