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Ubiquitin-mediated sequestration of normal cellular proteins into polyglutamine aggregates.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 22 Jul 2003
Donaldson Kathryn M, Li Wei, Ching Keith A, Batalov Serge, Tsai Chih-Cheng, Joazeiro Claudio A P
Abstract excerpt
A hallmark of most neurodegenerative diseases, including those caused by polyglutamine expansion, is the formation of ubiquitin (Ub)-positive protein aggregates in affected neurons. This finding suggests that the Ub system may be involved in common mechanisms underlying these otherwise unrelated...
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