HDAC inhibitors correct frataxin deficiency in a Friedreich ataxia mouse model.

BACKGROUND: Friedreich ataxia, an autosomal recessive neurodegenerative and cardiac disease, is caused by abnormally low levels of frataxin, an essential mitochondrial protein. All Friedreich ataxia patients carry a GAATTC repeat expansion in the first intron of the frataxin gene, either in the homo...

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Main Authors: Myriam Rai, Elisabetta Soragni, Kai Jenssen, Ryan Burnett, David Herman, Giovanni Coppola, Daniel H Geschwind, Joel M Gottesfeld, Massimo Pandolfo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2373517?pdf=render