Unmasking the roles of N- and C-terminal flanking sequences from exon 1 of huntingtin as modulators of polyglutamine aggregation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 20075-20080

  Crick, Scott L ^a   Ruff, Kiersten M ^a   Garai, Kanchan ^a,b   Frieden, Carl ^b   Pappu, Rohit V ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Phase separation; Subsaturation; Supersaturation; Tetramethyl rhodamine

Indexed keywords

HUNTINGTIN; POLYGLUTAMINE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXON; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; KINETICS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; SOLUBILITY; TOXICITY;

EID: 84890288534     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320626110     Document Type: Article

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