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Fractionation for Resolution of Soluble and Insoluble Huntingtin Species
Published on: February 27, 2018
An antioxidant boehmite amino-nanozyme able to disaggregate Huntington's inclusion bodies
Álvaro Martínez-Camarena1, Marian Merino2, Ana Virginia Sánchez-Sánchez2
1ICMol, Departamento de Química Inorgánica, University of Valencia, C/Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna, Spain. alvaro.martinez@uv.es.
Abstract:
A novel amino-nanozyme, based on boehmite nanoparticles (BNPs) functionalised with a tetra-azapyridinophane (L1), has been designed to undermine some of the key issues underlying Huntington disease. L1 forms Cu2+ complexes with a striking SOD activity, while when grafted to the BNPs displays mitoROS scavenging properties and ability to disaggregate mutant huntingtin deposits in cells.
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