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ArticleThe Journal of biological chemistry2018

N-terminal Huntingtin (Htt) phosphorylation is a molecular switch regulating Htt aggregation, helical conformation, internalization, and nuclear targeting.

Sean M DeGuire, Francesco S Ruggeri, Mohamed-Bilal Fares, Anass Chiki, Urszula Cendrowska, Giovanni Dietler, Hilal A Lashuel

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Article in The Journal of biological chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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48 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Prevention of ubiquitination at K6 and K9 in mutant huntingtin exacerbates disease pathology in a knock-in mouse model.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Regulation of Mutant Huntingtin Mitochondrial Toxicity by Phosphomimetic Mutations within Its N-Terminal Region.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sean M DeGuireFrom the Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and.
Francesco S Ruggerithe Laboratory of the Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Physics of Biological Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mohamed-Bilal FaresFrom the Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and.
Anass ChikiFrom the Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and.
Urszula Cendrowskathe Laboratory of the Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Physics of Biological Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Giovanni Dietlerthe Laboratory of the Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Physics of Biological Systems, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hilal A LashuelFrom the Laboratory of Molecular and Chemical Biology of Neurodegeneration, Brain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and hilal.lashuel@epfl.ch.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder resulting from a CAG repeat expansion in the first exon of the gene encoding the Huntingtin protein (Htt). Phosphorylation of this protein region (Httex1) has been shown to play important roles in regulating the structure, toxicity, and cellular properties of N-terminal fragments and full-length Htt. However, increasing evidence suggests that phosphomimetic substitutions in Htt result in inconsistent findings and do not reproduce all aspects of true phosphorylation. Here, we investigated the effects of

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Protein AggregatesAnimalsCell NucleusCells, CulturedCircular DichroismHuntingtin ProteinMolecular MimicryMutationNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsNuclear ProteinsPhosphoproteinsPhosphorylationProtein ConformationProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein TransportHtt protein, ratHuntingtin ProteinNerve Tissue ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPhosphoproteinsProtein AggregatesSerineaggregationAmyloidHttex1Htt proteinHuntington's diseaseneurodegenerative diseasephosphomimeticphosphorylationpost-translational modification (PTM)

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PMID30185623
PMCPMC6290154
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