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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

Transient Interdomain Interactions Modulate the Monomeric Structural Ensemble and Self-Assembly of Huntingtin Exon 1.

Priyesh Mohanty, Tien Minh Phan, Jeetain Mittal

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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Priyesh MohantyArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3919-3527
Tien Minh PhanArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8608-7359
Jeetain MittalArtie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9725-6402

Funding

Multiscale Computational Models to Investigate the Role of Phase Separation in BiologyR35GM153388 · NIGMS · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI Jeetain Mittal · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM153388NIH/NIGMS R35GM153388
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polyglutamine (polyQ) tract length expansion (≥ 36 residues) within the N-terminal exon-1 of Huntingtin (Httex1) leads to Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative condition marked by the presence of intranuclear Htt inclusions. Notably, the polyQ tract in Httex1 is flanked by an N-terminal coiled-coil domain -N17 (17 amino acids), which promotes the formation of soluble oligomers and brings the aggregation-prone polyQ tracts in close proximity. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying the conversion of soluble oligomers into insoluble β-rich aggregates with increasing polyQ length, remain unclear. In this study, extensive atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations (aggregate time ≈0.7 milliseconds) are performed to uncover the interplay between structural transformation and domain "cross-talk" on the conformational ensemble and oligomerization of Httex1 due to polyQ expansion. Notably, MD-derived ensembles of N17-Q

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Huntingtin ProteinHuntington DiseasePeptidesExonsHumansMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein DomainsHTT protein, humanHuntingtin ProteinPeptidespolyglutaminehuntingtinmolecular dynamics simulationpolyglutamine

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PMID40289673
PMCPMC12279223

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