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p62 accumulates and enhances aggregate formation in model systems of familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 13 Apr 2007
Gal Jozsef, Ström Anna-Lena, Kilty Renee, Zhang Fujian, Zhu Haining
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurode-generative disease characterized by motor neuron death. A hallmark of the disease is the appearance of protein aggregates in the affected motor neurons. We have found that p62, a protein implicated in protein aggregate formation, accumulated progressively in the G93A mouse spinal cord. The accumulation of p62 was in parallel to the increase of...
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