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Self-assembled FUS binds active chromatin and regulates gene transcription.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Dec 2014
Yang Liuqing, Gal Jozsef, Chen Jing, Zhu Haining
Abstract excerpt
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. Fused in sarcoma (FUS) is a DNA/RNA binding protein and mutations in FUS cause a subset of familial ALS. Most ALS mutations are clustered in the C-terminal nuclear localization sequence of FUS and consequently lead to the accumulation of protein inclusions in the cytoplasm. It remains debatable whether loss of FUS normal function in...
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