Huntington's disease: Diagnosis and management

TB Stoker, SL Mason, JC Greenland, ST Holden… - Practical …, 2022 - pn.bmj.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease characterised by
neuropsychiatric symptoms, a movement disorder (most commonly choreiform) and …

Endoplasmic reticulum membrane contact sites, lipid transport, and neurodegeneration

A Guillén-Samander… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) is an endomembrane system that plays a multiplicity of
roles in cell physiology and populates even the most distal cell compartments, including …

Analysis and benchmarking of small and large genomic variants across tandem repeats

AC English, E Dolzhenko, H Ziaei Jam… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Tandem repeats (TRs) are highly polymorphic in the human genome, have thousands of
associated molecular traits and are linked to over 60 disease phenotypes. However, they …

The role of junctophilin proteins in cellular function

SE Lehnart, XHT Wehrens - Physiological reviews, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Junctophilins (JPHs) comprise a family of structural proteins that connect the plasma
membrane to intracellular organelles such as the endo/sarcoplasmic reticulum (ER/SR) …

Structure, function, and regulation of the junctophilin family

DD Hall, H Takeshima, LS Song - Annual review of physiology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In both excitable and nonexcitable cells, diverse physiological processes are linked to
different calcium microdomains within nanoscale junctions that form between the plasma …

Plasma membrane curvature regulates the formation of contacts with the endoplasmic reticulum

Y Yang, LA Valencia, CH Lu, ML Nakamoto… - Nature cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Contact sites between the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and plasma membrane (PM) play a
crucial role in governing calcium regulation and lipid homeostasis. Despite their …

Huntington disease-like 2: insight into neurodegeneration from an African disease

A Krause, DG Anderson, A Ferreira-Correia… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Huntington disease (HD)-like 2 (HDL2) is a rare genetic disease caused by an
expanded trinucleotide repeat in the JPH3 gene (encoding junctophilin 3) that shows …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsic disorder in proteins with pathogenic repeat expansions

AL Darling, VN Uversky - Molecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Intrinsically disordered proteins and proteins with intrinsically disordered regions have been
shown to be highly prevalent in disease. Furthermore, disease-causing expansions of the …

Benchmarking of small and large variants across tandem repeats

A English, E Dolzhenko, HZ Jam, S Mckenzie… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Tandem repeats (TRs) are highly polymorphic in the human genome, have thousands of
associated molecular traits, and are linked to over 60 disease phenotypes. However, their …

Chorea

P Termsarasab - CONTINUUM: Lifelong Learning in Neurology, 2019 - journals.lww.com
PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article provides an overview of the approach to chorea in
clinical practice, beginning with a discussion of the phenomenologic features of chorea and …