Truncated N-terminal fragments of huntingtin with expanded glutamine repeats form nuclear and cytoplasmic aggregates in cell culture

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 783-790

  Cooper, Jillian K ^a   Schilling, Gabriele ^a   Peters, Matthew F ^a   Herring, William J ^a   Sharp, Alan H ^a   Kaminsky, Zachary ^a   Masone, Jamie ^a   Khan, Farhat A ^a   Delanoy, Michael ^a   Borchelt, David R ^a   Dawson, Valina L ^a   Dawson, Ted M ^a   Ross, Christopher A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE; HUNTINGTIN; STAUROSPORINE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL INCLUSION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; CYTOTOXICITY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DNA TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NEURITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; KIDNEY; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROBLASTOMA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; STAUROSPORINE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 7144253143     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.5.783     Document Type: Article

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