Huntington disease: new insights into molecular pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities

SJ Tabrizi, MD Flower, CA Ross, EJ Wild - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Huntington disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by CAG repeat expansion
in the huntingtin gene (HTT) and involves a complex web of pathogenic mechanisms …

Molecularly stimuli-responsive self-assembled peptide nanoparticles for targeted imaging and therapy

Y Zhou, Q Li, Y Wu, X Li, Y Zhou, Z Wang, H Liang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Self-assembly has emerged as an extensively used method for constructing biomaterials
with sizes ranging from nanometers to micrometers. Peptides have been extensively …

Mitophagy in Alzheimer's disease and other age-related neurodegenerative diseases

Q Cai, YY Jeong - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a central aspect of aging and neurodegenerative diseases,
including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and …

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 …

Protein aggregates in Huntington's disease

M Arrasate, S Finkbeiner - Experimental neurology, 2012 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease characterized by
abnormal motor movements, personality changes, and early death. HD is caused by a …

Toward understanding Machado–Joseph disease

M do Carmo Costa, HL Paulson - Progress in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Machado–Joseph disease (MJD), also known as spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3), is
the most common inherited spinocerebellar ataxia and one of many polyglutamine …

Thiol-based redox switches in eukaryotic proteins

N Brandes, S Schmitt, U Jakob - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2009 - liebertpub.com
For many years, oxidative thiol modifications in cytosolic proteins were largely disregarded
as in vitro artifacts, and considered unlikely to play significant roles within the reducing …

Huntington's disease

S Finkbeiner - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Huntington's disease (HD) is the most common inherited neurodegenerative disease and is
characterized by uncontrolled excessive motor movements and cognitive and emotional …

Polyglutamine neurodegeneration: protein misfolding revisited

AJ Williams, HL Paulson - Trends in neurosciences, 2008 - cell.com
Polyglutamine diseases are a major cause of neurodegeneration worldwide. Recent studies
highlight the importance of protein quality control mechanisms in regulating polyglutamine …

Secondary structure of Huntingtin amino-terminal region

MW Kim, Y Chelliah, SW Kim, Z Otwinowski… - Structure, 2009 - cell.com
Huntington's disease is a genetic neurodegenerative disorder resulting from polyglutamine
(polyQ) expansion (> 36Q) within the first exon of Huntingtin (Htt) protein. We applied X-ray …