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Huntington\'s disease (HD) is a deadly neurodegenerative disease with abnormal expansion of CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene.Mutant Huntingtin protein (mHTT) forms abnormal aggregates and intranuclear inclusions in specific neurons,resulting in cell d
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Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University,
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Huntington\'s disease (HD) is a deadly neurodegenerative disease with abnormal expansion of CAG repeats in the huntingtin gene.Mutant Huntingtin protein (mHTT) forms abnormal aggregates and intranuclear inclusions in specific neurons,resulting in cell death.Here,we tested the ability of a natural heat-shock protein 90 inhibitor,Gedunin,to degrade transfected mHTT in Neuro2a cells and endogenous mHTT aggregates and intranuclear inclusions in both fibroblasts from HD patients and neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells from patients.Our data showed that Gedunin treatment degraded transfected mHTT in Neuro-2a cells,endogenous mHTT aggregates and intranuclear inclusions in fibroblasts from HD patients,and in neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells from patients in a dose-and time-dependent manner,and its activity depended on the proteasomal pathway rather than the autophagy route.These findings also showed that although Gedunin degraded abnormal mHTT aggregates and intranuclear inclusions in cells from HD patient,it did not affect normal cells,thus providing a new perspective for using Gedunin to treat HD.
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