Modificación SUMO de la huntingtina y la patología de la enfermedad de Huntington

Joan S Steffan1, Namita Agrawal, Judit Pallos

  • 1Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Gillespie 2121, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|April 6, 2004
PubMed
Resumen

La SUMOilación de la proteína Huntingtina (Htt) en la enfermedad de Huntington (HD) exacerba la neurodegeneración. La ubiquitinación, sin embargo, lo impide. Dirigirse a estas modificaciones puede ofrecer nuevas vías terapéuticas para la EH.

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