Tau protein interaction partners and their roles in Alzheimer's disease and other tauopathies

J Sinsky, K Pichlerova, J Hanes - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Tau protein plays a critical role in the assembly, stabilization, and modulation of
microtubules, which are important for the normal function of neurons and the brain. In …

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 …

Excitation-induced ataxin-3 aggregation in neurons from patients with Machado–Joseph disease

P Koch, P Breuer, M Peitz, J Jungverdorben, J Kesavan… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Machado–Joseph disease (MJD; also called spinocerebellar ataxia type 3) is a dominantly
inherited late-onset neurodegenerative disorder caused by expansion of polyglutamine …

[HTML][HTML] Genetics, mechanisms, and therapeutic progress in polyglutamine spinocerebellar ataxias

RAM Buijsen, LJA Toonen, SL Gardiner… - …, 2019 - Elsevier
Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCAs) are a group of neurodegenerative
disorders characterized by degeneration of the cerebellum and its connections. All ADCAs …

Polyglutamine (PolyQ) diseases: genetics to treatments

HC Fan, LI Ho, CS Chi, SJ Chen, GS Peng… - Cell …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
The polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are a group of neurodegenerative disorders caused by
expanded cytosine–adenine–guanine (CAG) repeats encoding a long polyQ tract in the …

Machado–Joseph disease/spinocerebellar ataxia type 3: lessons from disease pathogenesis and clues into therapy

CA Matos, LP de Almeida… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Machado–Joseph disease (MJD), also known as spinocerebellar ataxia type 3
(SCA 3), is an incurable disorder, widely regarded as the most common form of …

Cajal bodies: a long history of discovery

M Cioce, AI Lamond - Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
This review surveys what is known about the structure and function of the subnuclear
domains called Cajal bodies (CBs). The major focus is on CBs in mammalian cells but we …

RNA toxicity is a component of ataxin-3 degeneration in Drosophila

LB Li, Z Yu, X Teng, NM Bonini - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are a class of dominantly inherited neurodegenerative
disorders caused by the expansion of a CAG repeat encoding glutamine within the coding …

Overexpression of the autophagic beclin-1 protein clears mutant ataxin-3 and alleviates Machado–Joseph disease

I Nascimento-Ferreira, T Santos-Ferreira… - Brain, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Machado–Joseph disease, also known as spinocerebellar ataxia type 3, is the most
common of the dominantly inherited ataxias worldwide and is characterized by mutant ataxin …

Ataxin-3 suppresses polyglutamine neurodegeneration in Drosophila by a ubiquitin-associated mechanism

JM Warrick, LM Morabito, J Bilen, B Gordesky-Gold… - Molecular cell, 2005 - cell.com
Two central issues in polyglutamine-induced neurodegeneration are the influence of the
normal function of the disease protein and modulation by protein quality control pathways …