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Opposing effects of polyglutamine expansion on native protein complexes contribute to SCA1.
Nature - 10 Apr 2008
Lim Janghoo, Crespo-Barreto Juan, Jafar-Nejad Paymaan, Bowman Aaron B, Richman Ronald, Hill David E, Orr Harry T, Zoghbi Huda Y
Abstract excerpt
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a dominantly inherited neurodegenerative disease caused by expansion of a glutamine-encoding repeat in ataxin 1 (ATXN1). In all known polyglutamine diseases, the glutamine expansion confers toxic functions onto the protein; however, the mechanism by which this occurs remains enigmatic, in light of the fact that the mutant protein apparently maintains interactions with its...
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