Studying Huntington's disease in yeast: from mechanisms to pharmacological approaches

S Hofer, K Kainz, A Zimmermann, MA Bauer… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that leads to progressive
neuronal loss, provoking impaired motor control, cognitive decline, and dementia. So far, HD …

Yeast as a model to study protein misfolding in aged cells

SE Di Gregorio, ML Duennwald - FEMS yeast research, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Yeast models of neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein misfolding and protein
aggregation have given unique insights into the underlying genetic and cellular …

Integrative genetic, genomic and transcriptomic analysis of heat shock protein and nuclear hormone receptor gene associations with spontaneous preterm birth

JM Huusko, H Tiensuu, AM Haapalainen, A Pasanen… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Heat shock proteins are involved in the response to stress including activation of the
immune response. Elevated circulating heat shock proteins are associated with …

Yeast models of neurodegenerative diseases

MF Tuite - Progress in molecular biology and translational …, 2019 - Elsevier
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been used to develop a wide range of highly
tractable living models of the major human neurodegenerative diseases. Yet even though …

Moving beyond disease to function: physiological roles for polyglutamine-rich sequences in cell decisions

TM Gerbich, AS Gladfelter - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Glutamine-rich tracts, also known as polyQ domains, have received a great deal of attention
for their role in multiple neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington's disease (HD) …

Expression of Huntingtin and TDP-43 derivatives in fission yeast can cause both beneficial and toxic effects

L Marte, S Boronat, R Barrios… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many neurodegenerative disorders display protein aggregation as a hallmark, Huntingtin
and TDP-43 aggregates being characteristic of Huntington disease and amyotrophic lateral …

Reviewing biochemical implications of normal and mutated Huntingtin in Huntington's disease

E Tellone, A Galtieri, S Ficarra - Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2020 - benthamdirect.com
Huntingtin (Htt) is a multi-function protein of the brain. Normal Htt shows a common alpha-
helical structure but conformational changes in the form with beta strands are the principal …

Unusual Occurrence of Two Bona-Fide CCA-Adding Enzymes in Dictyostelium discoideum

L Erber, A Hoffmann, J Fallmann, M Hagedorn… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Dictyostelium discoideum, the model organism for the evolutionary supergroup of
Amoebozoa, is a social amoeba that, upon starvation, undergoes transition from a …

A filter retardation assay facilitates the detection and quantification of heat-stable, amyloidogenic mutant huntingtin aggregates in complex biosamples

A Ast, F Schindler, A Buntru, S Schnoegl… - Huntington's …, 2018 - Springer
N-terminal mutant huntingtin (mHTT) fragments with pathogenic polyglutamine (polyQ) tracts
spontaneously form stable, amyloidogenic protein aggregates with a fibrillar morphology …

Protein misfolding toxicity and inclusion formation in cellular models of neurodegeneration

SE Di Gregorio - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Protein misfolding characterizes most neurodegenerative diseases. Protein misfolding is the
conversion of specific proteins from their normal, often soluble, and native three-dimensional …