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High-throughput Screening for Protein-based Inheritance in S. cerevisiae
Published on: August 8, 2017
Chemical Strike against a Dominant-Inherited MUC1-Frameshifted Protein Associated with Progressive Kidney Disease
1Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA.
Abstract:
In a recent paper by Dvela-Levitt et al., chemical screening using an immunofluorescent assay identified a compound that caused removal of a dominant-inherited misfolded secretory protein, mucin1-frameshifted, from an intracellular location in immortalized renal epithelial cells of a patient affected with progressive medullary cystic kidney disease. This illustrates the power of chemical screening at the cellular level to address specific proteinopathies and the utility of such compounds to illuminate novel cellular pathways that can clear toxic proteins.
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