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The induction levels of heat shock protein 70 differentiate the vulnerabilities to mutant huntingtin among neuronal subtypes.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 24 Jan 2007
Tagawa Kazuhiko, Marubuchi Shigeki, Qi Mei-Ling, Enokido Yasushi, Tamura Takuya, Inagaki Reina, Murata Miho, Kanazawa Ichiro, Wanker Erich E, Okazawa Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
The reason why vulnerabilities to mutant polyglutamine (polyQ) proteins are different among neuronal subtypes is mostly unknown. In this study, we compared the gene expression profiles of three types of primary neurons expressing huntingtin (htt) or ataxin-1. We found that heat shock protein 70 (hsp70), a well known chaperone molecule protecting neurons in the polyQ pathology, was dramatically upregulated only by...
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