Article
The 26S proteasome drives trinucleotide repeat expansions.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jul 2013
Concannon Claire, Lahue Robert S
Abstract excerpt
Trinucleotide repeat (TNR) expansion is the causative mutation for at least 17 inherited neurological diseases. An important question in the field is which proteins drive the expansion process. This study reports that the multi-functional protein Sem1 is a novel driver of TNR expansions in budding yeast. Mutants of SEM1 suppress up to 90% of expansions. Subsequent analysis showed that Sem1 facilitates expansions...
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