Transcriptional Dysregulation and Post-translational Modifications in Polyglutamine Diseases: From Pathogenesis to Potential Therapeutic Strategies

Polyglutamine (polyQ) diseases are hereditary neurodegenerative disorders caused by an abnormal expansion of a trinucleotide CAG repeat in the coding region of their respective associated genes. PolyQ diseases mainly display progressive degeneration of the brain and spinal cord. Nine polyQ diseases...

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Main Authors: Chunchen Xiang, Shun Zhang, Xiaoyu Dong, Shuang Ma, Shuyan Cong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnmol.2018.00153/full