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A Mutant Ataxin-3 Putative-Cleavage Fragment in Brains of Machado-Joseph Disease Patients and Transgenic Mice Is Cytotoxic above a Critical Concentration
Published in The Journal of neuroscience (10-11-2004)“…Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by ataxin-3 with a polyglutamine expansion. It is proposed that a toxic cleavage…”
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Formation of neuronal intranuclear inclusions underlies the neurological dysfunction in mice transgenic for the HD mutation
Published in Cell (08-08-1997)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is one of an increasing number of human neurodegenerative disorders caused by a CAG/polyglutamine-repeat expansion. The mutation…”
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Lymphocyte Apoptosis: Mediation by Increased Type 3 Inositol 1,4,5- Trisphosphate Receptor
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (26-07-1996)“…B and T lymphocytes undergoing apoptosis in response to anti-immunoglobulin M antibodies and dexamethasone, respectively, were found to have increased amounts…”
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Intranuclear Inclusions and Neuritic Aggregates in Transgenic Mice Expressing a Mutant N-Terminal Fragment of Huntingtin
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-03-1999)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited, neurodegenerative disorder caused by the expansion of a glutamine repeat in the N-terminus of the huntingtin…”
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Increased apoptosis of Huntington disease lymphoblasts associated with repeat length-dependent mitochondrial depolarization
Published in Nature medicine (01-10-1999)“…Huntington disease (HD) is a genetically dominant condition caused by expanded CAG repeats coding for glutamine in the HD gene product huntingtin. Although HD…”
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Localization of inositol trisphosphate receptor subtype 3 to insulin and somatostatin secretory granules and regulation of expression in islets and insulinoma cells
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-08-1994)“…Calcium ions play a central role in stimulus-secretion coupling in pancreatic beta cells, and an elevation of cytosolic Ca(2+) levels is necessary for insulin…”
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Synphilin-1 associates with α-synuclein and promotes the formation of cytosolic inclusions
Published in Nature genetics (01-05-1999)“…Parkinson disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity and postural instability. Post-mortem examination shows…”
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A huntingtin-associated protein enriched in brain with implications for pathology
Published in Nature (London) (23-11-1995)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expanding polyglutamine repeat in the IT15 or huntingtin gene…”
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Widespread expression of Huntington's disease gene (IT15) protein product
Published in Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.) (01-05-1995)“…Huntington's Disease (HD) is caused by expansion of a CAG repeat within a putative open reading frame of a recently identified gene, IT15. We have examined the…”
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Differential cellular expression of isoforms of inositol 1,4,5-triphosphate receptors in neurons and glia in brain
Published in Journal of comparative neurology (1911) (05-04-1999)“…Inositol 1,4,5‐trisphosphate receptors (IP3R) are mediators of second messenger‐induced intracellular calcium release. Three isoforms are known to be expressed…”
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Huntingtin's WW domain partners in Huntington's disease post-mortem brain fulfill genetic criteria for direct involvement in Huntington's disease pathogenesis
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-09-2000)“…An elongated glutamine tract in mutant huntingtin initiates Huntington's disease (HD) pathogenesis via a novel structural property that displays neuronal…”
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Neurobiology of Huntington's Disease
Published in Neurobiology of Disease (01-02-1996)Get full text
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Cleavage of Atrophin-1 at Caspase Site Aspartic Acid 109 Modulates Cytotoxicity
Published in The Journal of biological chemistry (26-03-1999)“…Dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) is one of eight autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorders characterized by an abnormal CAG repeat expansion…”
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Polyglutamine pathogenesis
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (29-06-1999)“…An increasing number of neurodegenerative disorders have been found to be caused by expanding CAG triplet repeats that code for polyglutamine. Huntington's…”
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Expansion of Polyglutamine Repeat in Huntingtin Leads to Abnormal Protein Interactions Involving Calmodulin
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-05-1996)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder associated with expansion of a CAG repeat in the IT15 gene. The IT15 gene is translated to…”
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Huntingtin-Associated Protein (HAP1): Discrete Neuronal Localizations in the Brain Resemble those of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (14-05-1996)“…Huntington disease stems from a mutation of the protein huntingtin and is characterized by selective loss of discrete neuronal populations in the brain…”
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Sequence and expression of MRNAs encoding the α1 and α2 subunits of a DHP-sensitive calcium channel
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (23-09-1988)Get full text
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The biochemistry and molecular biology of the dihydropyridine-sensitive calcium channel
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Expression of the Huntington's disease (IT15) protein product in HD patients
Published in Human molecular genetics (01-08-1995)“…Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited, neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of a CAG repeat in the IT15 gene, leading to an expanded glutamine…”
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HAP1-huntingtin interactions do not contribute to the molecular pathology in Huntington's disease transgenic mice
Published in FEBS letters (17-04-1998)“…HAP1 (huntingtin associated protein) has previously been found to interact with huntingtin (htt) in a glutamine length dependent manner and has been proposed…”
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