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Effects on murine behavior and lifespan of selectively decreasing expression of mutant huntingtin allele by supt4h knockdown.
PLoS genetics - 1 Mar 2015
Cheng Hui-Min, Chern Yijuang, Chen I-Hui, Liu Chia-Rung, Li Sih-Huei, Chun Seung J, Rigo Frank, Bennett C Frank, Deng Ning, Feng Yanan, Lin Chyuan-Sheng, Yan Yu-Ting, Cohen Stanley N, Cheng Tzu-Hao
Abstract excerpt
Production of protein containing lengthy stretches of polyglutamine encoded by multiple repeats of the trinucleotide CAG is a hallmark of Huntington's disease (HD) and of a variety of other inherited degenerative neurological and neuromuscular disorders. Earlier work has shown that interference with production of the transcription elongation protein SUPT4H results in decreased cellular capacity to transcribe...
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