The biology of huntingtin

F Saudou, S Humbert - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Huntingtin (HTT) is now a famous protein because an abnormal expansion of a glutamine
stretch (polyQ) in its N-terminal sequence leads to the devastating neurodegenerative …

Protein lipidation: occurrence, mechanisms, biological functions, and enabling technologies

H Jiang, X Zhang, X Chen, P Aramsangtienchai… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Protein lipidation, including cysteine prenylation, N-terminal glycine myristoylation, cysteine
palmitoylation, and serine and lysine fatty acylation, occurs in many proteins in eukaryotic …

Manganese is essential for neuronal health

KJ Horning, SW Caito, KG Tipps… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The understanding of manganese (Mn) biology, in particular its cellular regulation and role
in neurological disease, is an area of expanding interest. Mn is an essential micronutrient …

Extrasynaptic NMDA receptor involvement in central nervous system disorders

MP Parsons, LA Raymond - Neuron, 2014 - cell.com
NMDA receptor (NMDAR)-induced excitotoxicity is thought to contribute to the cell death
associated with certain neurodegenerative diseases, stroke, epilepsy, and traumatic brain …

The Physiology of Protein S-acylation

LH Chamberlain, MJ Shipston - Physiological reviews, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Protein S-acylation, the only fully reversible posttranslational lipid modification of proteins, is
emerging as a ubiquitous mechanism to control the properties and function of a diverse …

Autophagy in Huntington disease and huntingtin in autophagy

DDO Martin, S Ladha, DE Ehrnhoefer… - Trends in neurosciences, 2015 - cell.com
Autophagy is an important biological process that is essential for the removal of damaged
organelles and toxic or aggregated proteins by delivering them to the lysosome for …

A not-so-ancient grease history: click chemistry and protein lipid modifications

KF Suazo, KY Park, MD Distefano - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Protein lipid modification involves the attachment of hydrophobic groups to proteins via
ester, thioester, amide, or thioether linkages. In this review, the specific click chemical …

Protein S‐Palmitoylation: advances and challenges in studying a therapeutically important lipid modification

A Main, W Fuller - The FEBS Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The lipid post‐translational modification S‐palmitoylation is a vast developing field, with the
modification itself and the enzymes that catalyse the reversible reaction implicated in a …

Huntingtin and the Synapse

JC Barron, EP Hurley, MP Parsons - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Huntington disease (HD) is a monogenic disease that results in a combination of motor,
psychiatric and cognitive symptoms. HD is caused by a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion …

Single-stranded RNAs use RNAi to potently and allele-selectively inhibit mutant huntingtin expression

D Yu, H Pendergraff, J Liu, HB Kordasiewicz… - Cell, 2012 - cell.com
Mutant huntingtin (HTT) protein causes Huntington disease (HD), an incurable neurological
disorder. Silencing mutant HTT using nucleic acids would eliminate the root cause of HD …