Therapeutic approaches to polyglutamine diseases: combating protein misfolding and aggregation

M Herbst, EE Wanker - Current pharmaceutical design, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Polyglutamine diseases are autosomal dominant, late-onset neurodegenerative disorders.
Expansion of a polyglutamine (polyQ) tract above a threshold size leads to misfolding and …

Towards the treatment of polyglutamine diseases: the modulatory role of protein context

AL Robertson, SP Bottomley - Current medicinal chemistry, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Protein aggregation is a key mechanism involved in neurodegeneration associated with
Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases. Nine diseases (including Huntington's) …

Protein aggregation inhibitors as disease-modifying therapies for polyglutamine diseases

EN Minakawa, Y Nagai - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are a group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases
caused by the abnormal expansion of a CAG trinucleotide repeat that are translated into an …

A survey of protein interactions and posttranslational modifications that influence the polyglutamine diseases

SL Johnson, WL Tsou, MV Prifti, AL Harris… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The presence and aggregation of misfolded proteins has deleterious effects in the nervous
system. Among the various diseases caused by misfolded proteins is the family of the …

Protein misfolding and aggregation as a therapeutic target for polyglutamine diseases

T Takeuchi, Y Nagai - Brain sciences, 2017 - mdpi.com
The polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases, such as Huntington's disease and several types of
spinocerebellar ataxias, are a group of inherited neurodegenerative diseases that are …

Discovery of therapeutic approaches for polyglutamine diseases: a summary of recent efforts

S Esteves, S Duarte‐Silva… - Medicinal Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Polyglutamine (PolyQ) diseases are a group of neurodegenerative disorders caused by the
expansion of cytosine–adenine–guanine (CAG) trinucleotide repeats in the coding region of …

Conformational changes and aggregation of expanded polyglutamine proteins as therapeutic targets of the polyglutamine diseases: exposed β-sheet hypothesis

Y Nagai, HA Popiel - Current pharmaceutical design, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
The polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases, including Huntington's disease and spinocerebellar
ataxias, are classified as the protein misfolding neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's …

Polyglutamine disorders: Pathogenesis and potential drug interventions

S Tandon, P Aggarwal, S Sarkar - Life Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
Polyglutamine/poly (Q) diseases are a group nine hereditary neurodegenerative disorders
caused due to abnormally expanded stretches of CAG trinucleotide in functionally distinct …

Therapeutic opportunities in polyglutamine disease

RE Hughes, JM Olson - Nature medicine, 2001 - nature.com
Polyglutamine diseases comprise a class of familial neurodegenerative disorders caused by
expression of proteins containing expanded polyglutamine tracts. Great progress has been …

[HTML][HTML] Aggregation formation in the polyglutamine diseases: protection at a cost?

TW Todd, J Lim - Molecules and cells, 2013 - Elsevier
Mutant protein aggregation is a hallmark of many neuro-degenerative diseases, including
the polyglutamine disorders. Although the correlation between aggregation formation and …