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Identification of genes in toxicity pathways of trinucleotide-repeat RNA in C. elegans.
Nature structural & molecular biology - 1 Aug 2014
Garcia Susana M D A, Tabach Yuval, Lourenço Guinevere F, Armakola Maria, Ruvkun Gary
Abstract excerpt
Myotonic dystrophy disorders are caused by expanded CUG repeats in noncoding regions. Here we used Caenorhabditis elegans expressing CUG repeats to identify genes that modulate the toxicity of such repeats. We identified 15 conserved genes that function as suppressors or enhancers of CUG repeat-induced toxicity and that modulate formation of nuclear foci by CUG-repeat RNA. These genes regulate CUG repeat-induced...
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