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Kinase inhibitors modulate huntingtin cell localization and toxicity.
Nature chemical biology - 29 May 2011
Atwal Randy Singh, Desmond Carly R, Caron Nicholas, Maiuri Tamara, Xia Jianrun, Sipione Simonetta, Truant Ray
Abstract excerpt
Two serine residues within the first 17 amino acid residues of huntingtin (N17) are crucial for modulation of mutant huntingtin toxicity in cell and mouse genetic models of Huntington's disease. Here we show that the stress-dependent phosphorylation of huntingtin at Ser13 and Ser16 affects N17 conformation and targets full-length huntingtin to chromatin-dependent subregions of the nucleus, the mitotic spindle and...
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