[HTML][HTML] Young glial progenitor cells competitively replace aged and diseased human glia in the adult chimeric mouse brain

R Vieira, JN Mariani, NPT Huynh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Competition among adult brain cells has not been extensively researched. To investigate
whether healthy glia can outcompete diseased human glia in the adult forebrain, we …

[HTML][HTML] Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance in the structural study of polyglutamine aggregation

PCA van der Wel - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2024 - portlandpress.com
The aggregation of proteins into amyloid-like fibrils is seen in many neurodegenerative
diseases. Recent years have seen much progress in our understanding of these misfolded …

Unraveling the Puzzle of Therapeutic Peptides: A Promising Frontier in Huntington's Disease Treatment

S Ahamad, N Bano, S Khan, MK Hussain… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder characterized by a
mutation in the huntingtin (HTT) gene, resulting in the production of a mutant huntingtin …

Polyglutamine-mediated ribotoxicity disrupts proteostasis and stress responses in Huntington's disease

R Aviner, TT Lee, VB Masto, KH Li, R Andino… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of a CAG
trinucleotide repeat in the Huntingtin (HTT) gene, encoding a homopolymeric polyglutamine …

Dietary fibre confers therapeutic effects in a preclinical model of Huntington's disease

C Gubert, G Kong, C Costello, CD Adams… - Brain, Behavior, and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder involving psychiatric, cognitive
and motor deficits, as well as peripheral symptoms, including gastrointestinal dysfunction …

[HTML][HTML] Condensate interfaces can accelerate protein aggregation

CH Choi, DSW Lee, DW Sanders, CP Brangwynne - Biophysical journal, 2024 - cell.com
Protein aggregates, formed from the assembly of aberrant, misfolded proteins, are a
hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases. Disease-associated aggregates such as mutant …

Nucleation of Huntingtin Aggregation Proceeds via Conformational Conversion of Pre‐Formed, Sparsely‐Populated Tetramers

F Torricella, V Tugarinov, GM Clore - Advanced Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogenic huntingtin exon‐1 protein (httex1), characterized by an expanded polyglutamine
tract located between the N‐terminal amphiphilic region and a C‐terminal polyproline‐rich …

A CAG repeat threshold for therapeutics targeting somatic instability in Huntington's disease

SG Aldous, EJ Smith, C Landles, GF Osborne… - Brain, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The Huntington's disease mutation is a CAG repeat expansion in the huntingtin gene that
results in an expanded polyglutamine tract in the huntingtin protein. The CAG repeat is …

Huntington's disease: complex pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies

H Tong, T Yang, S Xu, X Li, L Liu, G Zhou… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Huntington's disease (HD) arises from the abnormal expansion of CAG repeats in the
huntingtin gene (HTT), resulting in the production of the mutant huntingtin protein (mHTT) …

[HTML][HTML] A pipeline for the development and analysis of extracellular vesicle-based transcriptomic biomarkers in molecular diagnostics

C Grätz, M Schuster, F Brandes, AS Meidert… - Molecular Aspects of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Extracellular vesicles are shed by every cell type and can be found in any biofluid. They
contain different molecules that can be utilized as biomarkers, including several RNA …