Serine 421 regulates mutant huntingtin toxicity and clearance in mice
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Serine 421 regulates mutant huntingtin toxicity and clearance in mice.
Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive, adult-onset neurodegenerative disease caused by a polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion in the N-terminal region of the protein huntingtin (HTT). There are no cures or disease-modifying therapies for HD. HTT has a highly conserved Akt phosphorylation site at serine 421, and prior work in HD models found that phosphorylation at S421 (S421-P) diminishes the t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0021-9738,1558-8238
DOI: 10.1172/jci80339