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Mutant huntingtin affects cortical progenitor cell division and development of the mouse neocortex.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 23 Jul 2014
Molina-Calavita Maria, Barnat Monia, Elias Salah, Aparicio Esther, Piel Matthieu, Humbert Sandrine
Abstract excerpt
A polyglutamine expansion in huntingtin (HTT) causes the specific death of adult neurons in Huntington's disease (HD). Most studies have thus focused on mutant HTT (mHTT) toxicity in adulthood, and its developmental effects have been largely overlooked. We found that mHTT caused mitotic spindle misorientation in cultured cells by altering the localization of dynein, NuMA, and the p150(Glued) subunit of dynactin...
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