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Slides: Shale And Air Quality: The View From The Other Side, Jeremy Nichols
Slides: Shale And Air Quality: The View From The Other Side, Jeremy Nichols
Shale Plays in the Intermountain West: Legal and Policy Issues (November 12)
Presenter: Jeremy Nichols, Climate & Energy Program Director, WildEarth Guardians, Denver, CO
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Small Heat-Shock Proteins Interact With A Flanking Domain To Suppress Polyglutamine Aggregation, Amy L. Roberston, Stephen J. Headey, Helen M. Saunders, Heath Ecroyd, Martin J. Scanlon, John A. Carver, Stephen P. Bottomley
Small Heat-Shock Proteins Interact With A Flanking Domain To Suppress Polyglutamine Aggregation, Amy L. Roberston, Stephen J. Headey, Helen M. Saunders, Heath Ecroyd, Martin J. Scanlon, John A. Carver, Stephen P. Bottomley
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Small heat-shock proteins (sHsps) are molecular chaperones that play an important protective role against cellular protein misfolding by interacting with partially unfolded proteins on their off-folding pathway, preventing their aggregation. Polyglutamine (polyQ) repeat expansion leads to the formation of fibrillar protein aggregates and neuronal cell death in nine diseases, including Huntington disease and the spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs). There is evidence that sHsps have a role in suppression of polyQ-induced neurodegeneration; for example, the sHsp alphaB-crystallin (αB-c) has been identified as a suppressor of SCA3 toxicity in a Drosophila model. However, the molecular mechanism for this suppression is unknown. In this …