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Regulator of Calcineurin (RCAN1-1L) Is Deficient in Huntington Disease and Protective against Mutant Huntingtin Toxicity in Vitro
8 Mar 2009
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Our work suggests an important new link between the RCAN1 gene and Huntington disease. Huntington disease is caused by expansion of glutamine repeats in the huntingtin protein. How the huntingtin protein with expanded polyglutamines (mutant huntingtin) causes the disease is still unclear, but phosphorylation of huntingtin appears to be protective. Increased huntingtin phosphorylation can be produced either by...
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