In vitro evidence for both the nucleus and cytoplasm as subcellular sites of pathogenesis in Huntington's disease

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-33

  Hackam, Abigail S ^a,b   Singaraja, Roshni ^a,b   Zhang, Taiqi ^a,b   Gan, Lu ^a,b   Hayden, Michael R ^a,b  

^a Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS;

EID: 0032946228     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.1.25     Document Type: Article

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