Mrj is a chaperone of the Hsp40 family that regulates Orb2 oligomerization and long-term memory in Drosophila

M Desai, Hemant, A Deo, J Naik, P Dhamale… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
… Unlike its mammalian homolog, we find Drosophila Mrj is neither an essential gene nor …
expanded poly Glutamine aggregates in the brain and could rescue its toxicity in the Drosophila

Targeting Hsp70 facilitated protein quality control for treatment of polyglutamine diseases

AK Davis, WB Pratt, AP Lieberman, Y Osawa - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2020 - Springer
… protein, DNAJB6 (MRJ), shown to potently inhibit the aggregation of … Over-expression of the
ER localized Hsc70 homolog BIP [137… of the role aggregates play in polyQ protein toxicity is …

Mrj an Hsp40 family chaperone regulates the oligomerization of Orb2 and long-term memory

M Desai, Hemant, A Deo, J Naik, T Bose, A Majumdar - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
… Unlike its mammalian homolog, we find Drosophila Mrj is neither an essential gene nor …
expanded poly Glutamine aggregates in the brain and could rescue its toxicity in the Drosophila

Molecular and clinical determinants of pathogenic protein aggregation: modulation of polyglutamine diseases by molecular chaperones

EP Mattos - 2022 - research.rug.nl
… of the differential toxicity of the aggregation process and/or its … Drosophila (involving the
JDP DnaJ-1, a putative ortholog of … whether MRJ is the true fly equivalent of human DNAJB6, …

J proteins counteract amyloid propagation and toxicity in yeast

DC Masison, M Reidy, J Kumar - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
… The expression of disease-associated polyglutamineaggregates of polyQ or the resident
prions [40,99,100,101,102]. Overexpressing Ydj1 or Sis1 was found to modulate the toxicity of …

Clearance of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease prions in vivo by the Hsp70 disaggregase system

AM Thackray, B Lam, EE McNulty, AV Nalls… - Brain, 2022 - academic.oup.com
… Here we have tested the hypothesis that modulation of Hsp70 … , for example mrj, a gene
that encodes an orthologue of a … aggregation, 60 while DnaJ-1 can suppress poly glutamine (…

Ubiquitin-interacting motifs of ataxin-3 regulate its polyglutamine toxicity through Hsc70-4-dependent aggregation

SL Johnson, B Ranxhi, K Libohova, WL Tsou, SV Todi - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
… UIMs modulate toxicity of the isolated polyQ of ataxin-3. (A) … ortholog, HSPA8, indicate that
it can suppress aggregation … the HSP40 members Dnaj and mrj, and the HSP70 members …

[PDF][PDF] Proteins Counteract Amyloid Propagation and Toxicity in Yeast. Biology 2022, 11, 1292

DC Masison, M Reidy, JJ Kumar - 2022 - academia.edu
aggregates of polyQ or the resident prions [40,99–102]. Overexpressing Ydj1 or Sis1 was
found to modulate the toxicity … Suppression of polyglutamine toxicity by a Drosophila homolog

Cell-autonomous and non-cell autonomous protection of DNAJB6 in Huntington's disease

M Bason - 2019 - research.rug.nl
… NDs-associated aggregates and their toxicity in cells and the … aggregates are found in the
brain of patients: Polyglutamine (… further aggravates aggregation of proteins by modulating the …

Investigation of the Trans-synaptic, Prion-like Transmission of Mutant Huntingtin Aggregates in the Drosophila melanogaster Brain

KM Donnelly - 2023 - search.proquest.com
… Alpha-synuclein immunoreactivity of huntingtin polyglutamine aggregates in striatum and …
in intracellular inclusions and modulates its aggregation, secretion and toxicity. Hum. Mol. …