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Suppression of mutant Huntingtin aggregate formation by Cdk5/p35 through the effect on microtubule stability.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 27 Aug 2008
Kaminosono Sayuko, Saito Taro, Oyama Fumitaka, Ohshima Toshio, Asada Akiko, Nagai Yoshitaka, Nukina Nobuyuki, Hisanaga Shin-Ichi
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease (HD) is a polyglutamine [poly(Q)] disease with an expanded poly(Q) stretch in the N terminus of the huntingtin protein (htt). A major pathological feature of HD neurons is inclusion bodies, detergent-insoluble aggregates composed of poly(Q)-expanded mutant htt (mhtt). Misfolding of mhtt is thought to confer a toxic property via formation of aggregates. Although toxic molecular species are...
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