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Drosophila Myc, a novel modifier suppresses the poly(Q) toxicity by modulating the level of CREB binding protein and histone acetylation.
Neurobiology of disease - 1 Mar 2014
Singh M Dhruba, Raj Kritika, Sarkar Surajit
Abstract excerpt
Polyglutamine or poly(Q) disorders are dominantly inherited neurodegenerative diseases characterised by progressive loss of neurons in cerebellum, basal ganglia and cortex in adult human brain. Overexpression of human form of mutant SCA3 protein with 78 poly(Q) repeats leads to the formation of inclusion bodies and increases the cellular toxicity in Drosophila eye. The present study was directed to identify a...
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