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Comparative Analysis of Mutant Huntingtin Binding Partners in Yeast Species.
Scientific reports - 22 Jun 2018
Zhao Yanding, Zurawel Ashley A, Jenkins Nicole P, Duennwald Martin L, Cheng Chao, Kettenbach Arminja N, Supattapone Surachai
Abstract excerpt
Huntington's disease is caused by the pathological expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) stretch in Huntingtin (Htt), but the molecular mechanisms by which polyQ expansion in Htt causes toxicity in selective neuronal populations remain poorly understood. Interestingly, heterologous expression of expanded polyQ Htt is toxic in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells, but has no effect in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, a related...
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