Abstract
Dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy is a polyglutamine disorder caused by expansion of a CAG repeat tract within the human atrophin 1 gene. Truncated fragments of polyQ Atrophin one accumulate in neuronal nuclei of DRPLA patients and represent the toxic form. The normal Atrophin 1 protein is conserved from Drosophila to mammals where it acts as transcriptional co-repressor.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Curated Reference Collection in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology |
Publisher | Elsevier Science Ltd |
Pages | 100-103 |
Number of pages | 4 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780128093245 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2016 |
Keywords
- Atrophin-1
- CAG expansion
- Co-repressor
- DRPLA
- MTA-2
- Neurodegeneration
- Nuclear aggregates
- NURD
- Polyglutamine
- Trinucleotide repeat