Fibril polymorphism affects immobilized non-amyloid flanking domains of huntingtin exon1 rather than its polyglutamine core

Huntington's disease is caused by a polyglutamine stretch expansion in the first exon of huntingtin. Here, the authors use infrared spectroscopy and solid-state NMR and show that polymorphic huntingtin exon1 fibres differ in their flanking regions but not their core polyglutamine amyloid struct...

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Main Authors: Hsiang-Kai Lin, Jennifer C. Boatz, Inge E. Krabbendam, Ravindra Kodali, Zhipeng Hou, Ronald Wetzel, Amalia M. Dolga, Michelle A. Poirier, Patrick C. A. van der Wel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15462