Article
Serine phosphorylation suppresses huntingtin amyloid accumulation by altering protein aggregation properties.
Journal of molecular biology - 23 Nov 2012
Mishra Rakesh, Hoop Cody L, Kodali Ravindra, Sahoo Bankanidhi, van der Wel Patrick C A, Wetzel Ronald
Abstract excerpt
Aggregation of expanded polyglutamine repeat-containing fragments of the huntingtin (htt) protein may play a key role in Huntington's disease. Consistent with this hypothesis, two Ser-to-Asp mutations in the 17-amino-acid N-terminal htt(NT) segment abrogate both visible brain aggregates and disease symptoms in a full-length Q(97) htt mouse model while compromising aggregation kinetics and aggregate morphology in...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Amyloid
- Animals
- Exons
- Humans
- Huntingtin Protein
- Kinetics
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
