Development of novel methods and tools to decipher the huntingtin post-translation modifications code

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Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expansion of a CAG triplet repeat (encoding for a polyglutamine tract) within the first exon of the huntingtin gene. Expression of the mutant huntingtin (mHTT) protein can r ...

Development of novel methods and tools to decipher the huntingtin post-translation modifications code

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