Janine Kirstein

Chaperone-mediated remodelling of mutant huntingtin

Abstract Huntington's disease is caused by the trinucleotide repeat CAG expansion in the huntingtin gene, resulting in an N-terminal polyglutamine (polyQ) tract that renders the huntingtin protein (HTT) prone to misfolding and aggregation. Although polyQ expansion is an intrinsic driver of aggregation, the folding traj...