کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10767127 1050698 2008 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Neurofilament protein aggregation in a cell line model system
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
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Neurofilament protein aggregation in a cell line model system
چکیده انگلیسی
Protein aggregates are associated with many diseases and even aggregates of proteins that have no role in disease are inherently toxic to both neuronal and non-neuronal cells. We have developed a model system to explore the mechanism of protein aggregation using a mouse muscle cell line expressing chimeric neurofilament (NF) proteins, a constituent of the protein aggregates in ALS, Lewy body dementia, and Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. Formation of protein aggregates in these cells leads to reduced cell viability and activated caspases. Aggregates contained both chimeric NF proteins and ubiquitin by immunolocalization and were predominately cytosolic when proteins were expressed at low levels or for shorter periods of time but were present in the nucleus when expression levels increased. This system represents a flexible, new tool to decipher the molecular mechanism of protein aggregation and the contributions of aggregation to cell toxicity.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - Volume 366, Issue 1, 1 February 2008, Pages 73-79
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