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Conformational Targeting of Fibrillar Polyglutamine Proteins in Live Cells Escalates Aggregation and Cytotoxicity

BACKGROUND: Misfolding- and aggregation-prone proteins underlying Parkinson's, Huntington's and Machado-Joseph diseases, namely α-synuclein, huntingtin, and ataxin-3 respectively, adopt numerous intracellular conformations during pathogenesis, including globular intermediates and insoluble...

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Autores principales: Kvam, Erik, Nannenga, Brent L., Wang, Min S., Jia, Zongjian, Sierks, Michael R., Messer, Anne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19492089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005727