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The neurodegenerative disease protein ataxin-1 antagonizes the neuronal survival function of myocyte enhancer factor-2.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 5 Oct 2007
Bolger Timothy A, Zhao Xuan, Cohen Todd J, Tsai Chih-Cheng, Yao Tso-Pang
Abstract excerpt
Ataxin-1 is a neurodegenerative disorder protein whose mutant form causes spinocerebellar ataxia type-1 (SCA1). Evidence suggests that ataxin-1 may function as a transcription repressor. However, neither the importance of this putative transcriptional repression activity in neural cytotoxicity no...
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