The pathogenic mechanisms of polyglutamine diseases and current therapeutic strategies

PO Bauer, N Nukina - Journal of neurochemistry, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Expansion of CAG trinucleotide repeat within the coding region of several genes results in
the production of proteins with expanded polyglutamine (PolyQ) stretch. The expression of …

Localized and efficient curli nucleation requires the chaperone-like amyloid assembly protein CsgF

AA Nenninger, LS Robinson… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Elucidation of the early events in amyloidogenesis is key to understanding the pathology of,
and developing therapies for, amyloid diseases. Critical informants about these early events …

Reversibility of symptoms in a conditional mouse model of spinocerebellar ataxia type 3

J Boy, T Schmidt, H Wolburg, A Mack… - Human molecular …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) is caused by the expansion of a CAG repeat
tract that affects the MJD1 gene which encodes the ataxin-3 protein. In order to analyze …

Virus-Induced Chaperone-Enriched (VICE) domains function as nuclear protein quality control centers during HSV-1 infection

CM Livingston, MF Ifrim, AE Cowan, SK Weller - PLoS pathogens, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Virus-Induced Chaperone-Enriched (VICE) domains form adjacent to nuclear viral
replication compartments (RC) during the early stages of HSV-1 infection. Between 2 and 3 …

Identification and functional dissection of localization signals within ataxin-3

PMA Antony, S Mäntele, P Mollenkopf, J Boy… - Neurobiology of …, 2009 - Elsevier
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) or Machado–Joseph disease (MJD) belongs to a
group of autosomal dominant neurodegenerative diseases, which are caused by the …

Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling activity of ataxin-3

S Macedo-Ribeiro, L Cortes, P Maciel, AL Carvalho - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Spinocerebellar ataxia type-3, also known as Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD), is one of
many inherited neurodegenerative disorders caused by polyglutamine-encoding CAG …

Molecular pathogenesis of spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 disease

S Kang, S Hong - Molecules and cells, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is an autosomal-dominant neurodegenerative
disorder characterized by ataxia and progressive motor deterioration. SCA1 is associated …

Polyglutamine-expanded androgen receptor truncation fragments activate a Bax-dependent apoptotic cascade mediated by DP5/Hrk

JE Young, GA Garden, RA Martinez… - Journal of …, 2009 - Soc Neuroscience
Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is an inherited neuromuscular disorder caused
by a polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat expansion in the androgen receptor (AR). PolyQ-AR …

Conformational targeting of fibrillar polyglutamine proteins in live cells escalates aggregation and cytotoxicity

E Kvam, BL Nannenga, MS Wang, Z Jia, MR Sierks… - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Background Misfolding-and aggregation-prone proteins underlying Parkinson's,
Huntington's and Machado-Joseph diseases, namely α-synuclein, huntingtin, and ataxin-3 …

Severe neurological phenotypes of Q129 DRPLA transgenic mice serendipitously created by en masse expansion of CAG repeats in Q76 DRPLA mice

T Sato, M Miura, M Yamada, T Yoshida… - Human molecular …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We herein provide a thorough description of new transgenic mouse models for dentatorubral–
pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) harboring a single copy of the full-length human mutant …