supported by Dana Impak Perdana Grant(DIP-2019-007)received by NMI from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Trehalose,a unique nonreducing crystalline disaccharide,is a potential disease-modifying treatment for neurodegenerative diseases associated with protein misfolding and aggregation due to aging,intrinsic mutations,or ...
funded by national funds;through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)-project UIDB/50026/2020 and UIDP/50026/2020;by the National Ataxia Foundation (NAF)
Spinocerebellar ataxias are heritable neurodegenerative diseases caused by a cytosine-adenine-guanine expansion,which encodes a long glutamine tract(polyglutamine)in the respective wild-type protein causing misfolding...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31470758 and 31870764).
Nine polyglutamine(polyQ)proteins have already been identified that are considered to be associated with the pathologies of neurodegenerative disorders called polyQ diseases,but whether these polyQ proteins mutually i...
Mutant proteins containing an expanded polyglutamine tract induce cell death and cause neurodegenerative diseases. These toxic proteins interfere with a variety of physiological pathways, but the key interactions betw...
Proteins containing an expanded polyglutamine tract are neurotoxins. The expanded polyglutamine proteins influence a variety of cellular functions. In Drosophila the GMR-Gal4/UAS expression system has been widely used...
supported by NIH grants NS036232, AG019206,NS041669 for X.J.L. and AG031153 for S.H.L.
Transgenic animal models have revealed much about the pathogenesis of age-dependent neurodegenerative diseases and proved to be a useful tool for uncovering therapeutic targets. Huntington's disease is a well-charact...
Although huntingtin (htt) can be cleaved at many sites by caspases, calpains, and aspartyl proteases, amino acid (aa) 552 was defined as a preferred site for cleavage in human Huntington disease (HD) brains in v...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.30770761 and 30971000)
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by abnormal CAG repeat expansion in the 5'-end of the Huntingtin (HTT) gene. In addition to the canonical C-terminal full-length huntingtin (htt) nuclear export signal, a cy...
The neurodegenerative polyglutamine diseases are caused various disease proteins. Although these mutant proteins are by an expansion of unstable polyglutamine repeats in expressed ubiquitously in neuronal and non-neur...
supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30600197);the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China(No.20050285017)
Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are a family of neurodegenerative disorders including Huntington’s disease, spinobulbar muscular atrophy,dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy and several spinocerebellar ataxias.polyQ...