Article
Implications of the prion-related Q/N domains in TDP-43 and FUS.
Prion - 1 Jan 2000
Udan Maria, Baloh Robert H
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are clinically overlapping neurodegenerative disorders whose pathophysiology remains incompletely understood. ALS initiates in a discrete location, and typically progresses in a pattern consistent with spread of the degenerative process to involve neighboring regions of the motor system, although the basis of the apparent "spread"...
Topics
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Animals
- Asparagine
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration
- Glutamine
- Humans
- Models, Genetic
- Mutation
- Neurons
- Prions
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
