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Effect of single amino acid substitution on oxidative modifications of the Parkinson's disease-related protein, DJ-1.
Molecular & cellular proteomics : MCP - 1 Feb 2012
Madian Ashraf G, Hindupur Jagadish, Hulleman John D, Diaz-Maldonado Naomi, Mishra Vartika R, Guigard Emmanuel, Kay Cyril M, Rochet Jean-Christophe, Regnier Fred E
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the gene encoding DJ-1 have been identified in patients with familial Parkinson's disease (PD) and are thought to inactivate a neuroprotective function. Oxidation of the sulfhydryl group to a sulfinic acid on cysteine residue C106 of DJ-1 yields the "2O " form, a variant of the protein with enhanced neuroprotective function. We hypothesized that some familial mutations disrupt DJ-1 activity by...
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