| Literature DB >> 16757807 |
Qurratulain Hasan1, Ravindra Varma Alluri, Pragna Rao, Yog Raj Ahuja.
Abstract
The pathological expansion of unstable trinucleotide repeats is known to cause neurodegenerative diseases. Trinucleotide repeat expansions might prove to be pathological through a variety of mechanisms, including alteration of DNA structure, transcription, RNA-protein interaction, and altered protein conformations/interactions. Deamidation of human proteins have been shown to regulate some time-dependent biological processes such as development and aging. In this paper we hypothesize the possible role of glutamine deamidation as a signaling event in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases associated with triplet repeat expansion.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16757807
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Mol Neurosci ISSN: 0895-8696 Impact factor: 3.444