Sentences with phrase «extra-long huntingtin protein»

First off, all of this new research on the role of the helper complex and mTOR in making extra-long huntingtin protein was done in cells or mice.

The more we understand about how the normal and extra-long huntingtin proteins are made and work in brain cells, the better equipped we'll be in the search for HD treatments.

Not exact matches

It's the extra-long copy of the huntingtin gene that makes neurons sick, because it causes them to produce an extra-long, harmful version of the huntingtin protein.

In HD, a repeated sequence of letters in this gene leads to an extra-long form of huntingtin protein that can wreak havoc in brain cells over long periods of time.

As expected, they found that the normal and extra-long genetic instructions were both translated into huntingtin proteins when they met up with a ribosome (the chef from our analogy above).