Cleavage, aggregation and toxicity of the expanded androgen receptor in spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 693-701

  Merry, D E ^a   Kobayashi, Y ^a,b   Bailey, C K ^a   Taye, A A ^a   Fischbeck, K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMINE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; COS CELLS; CYTOPLASM; GLUTAMINE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTOR AGGREGATION; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSFECTION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031948607     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.4.693     Document Type: Article

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