Interferencia de la huntingtina y la atrofina-1 con la transcripción mediada por cbp que conduce a la toxicidad

F C Nucifora1, M Sasaki, M F Peters

  • 1Division of Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205-2196, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|March 27, 2001
PubMed
Resumen

Las repeticiones expandidas de poliglutamina en la enfermedad de Huntington interrumpen la función de la proteína de unión CREB (CBP), lo que lleva a la degeneración neuronal. La restauración de los niveles de CBP puede prevenir esta toxicidad, lo que sugiere un papel clave para la CBP en la patogénesis de la enfermedad.

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