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Pumilio1 haploinsufficiency leads to SCA1-like neurodegeneration by increasing wild-type Ataxin1 levels.
Cell - 12 Mar 2015
Gennarino Vincenzo A, Singh Ravi K, White Joshua J, De Maio Antonia, Han Kihoon, Kim Ji-Yoen, Jafar-Nejad Paymaan, di Ronza Alberto, Kang Hyojin, Sayegh Layal S, Cooper Thomas A, Orr Harry T, Sillitoe Roy V, Zoghbi Huda Y
Abstract excerpt
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a paradigmatic neurodegenerative proteinopathy, in which a mutant protein (in this case, ATAXIN1) accumulates in neurons and exerts toxicity; in SCA1, this process causes progressive deterioration of motor coordination. Seeking to understand how post-translational modification of ATAXIN1 levels influences disease, we discovered that the RNA-binding protein PUMILIO1 (PUM1)...
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