Title : Caspase-mediated proteolysis of the polyglutamine disease protein ataxin-3.

Pub. Date : 2004 May

PMID : 15140190






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1 Site-directed mutagenesis experiments eliminating three, six or nine potential caspase cleavage sites in the protein suggest redundancy in the site(s) at which cleavage can occur, as previously described for other disease proteins; but also map a major cleavage event to a cluster of aspartate residues within the ubiquitin-binding domain of ataxin-3 near the polyglutamine tract. polyglutamine caspase 1 Homo sapiens