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Biology and Pathobiology of TDP-43 and Emergent Therapeutic Strategies.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Sept 2017
Guo Lin, Shorter James
Abstract excerpt
Cytoplasmic TDP-43 mislocalization and aggregation is a pathological hallmark of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. TDP-43 is an RNA-binding protein (RBP) with a prion-like domain (PrLD) that promotes TDP-43 misfolding. PrLDs possess compositional similarity to canonical prion domains of various yeast proteins, including Sup35. Strikingly, disease-causing TDP-43 mutations reside...
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