The biology of huntingtin

F Saudou, S Humbert - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Huntingtin (HTT) is now a famous protein because an abnormal expansion of a glutamine
stretch (polyQ) in its N-terminal sequence leads to the devastating neurodegenerative …

Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

Protein acylation: mechanisms, biological functions and therapeutic targets

S Shang, J Liu, F Hua - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic reprogramming is involved in the pathogenesis of not only cancers but also
neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and infectious diseases. With the …

Manganese is essential for neuronal health

KJ Horning, SW Caito, KG Tipps… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The understanding of manganese (Mn) biology, in particular its cellular regulation and role
in neurological disease, is an area of expanding interest. Mn is an essential micronutrient …

Huntingtin functions as a scaffold for selective macroautophagy

YN Rui, Z Xu, B Patel, Z Chen, D Chen, A Tito… - Nature cell …, 2015 - nature.com
Selective macroautophagy is an important protective mechanism against diverse cellular
stresses. In contrast to the well-characterized starvation-induced autophagy, the regulation …

Huntington's disease: from molecular pathogenesis to clinical treatment

CA Ross, SJ Tabrizi - The Lancet Neurology, 2011 - thelancet.com
Huntington's disease is a progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative disorder caused by an
expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene, which encodes an abnormally long …

Molecular pathophysiological mechanisms in Huntington's disease

A Jurcau - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disease described 150 years ago
by George Huntington. The genetic defect was identified in 1993 to be an expanded CAG …

The Physiology of Protein S-acylation

LH Chamberlain, MJ Shipston - Physiological reviews, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Protein S-acylation, the only fully reversible posttranslational lipid modification of proteins, is
emerging as a ubiquitous mechanism to control the properties and function of a diverse …

Cellular magnesium homeostasis

AMP Romani - Archives of biochemistry and biophysics, 2011 - Elsevier
Magnesium, the second most abundant cellular cation after potassium, is essential to
regulate numerous cellular functions and enzymes, including ion channels, metabolic …

Molecular mechanisms and potential therapeutical targets in Huntington's disease

C Zuccato, M Valenza, E Cattaneo - Physiological reviews, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat
expansion in the gene encoding for huntingtin protein. A lot has been learned about this …