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Protein tyrosine phosphatases are up-regulated and participate in cell death induced by polyglutamine expansion.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 15 Nov 2002
Wu Zhi-Liang, O'Kane Teresa M, Scott Richard W, Savage Mary J, Bozyczko-Coyne Donna
Abstract excerpt
Polyglutamine expansion is the cause of several neurodegenerative diseases. An in vitro model of polyglutamine-induced neuronal cell death was developed using truncated mutant huntingtin (Htt) and PC12 cells. Cell death was specifically observed in cells expressing a truncated mutant huntingtin-g...
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