Friday, June 13, 2014

HSOP's Mouli Wins Most Outstanding At Auburn's Research Week

HSOP's Mouli Wins Most Outstanding At Auburn's Research Week. The Auburn pharmacist e-news, Auburn University. June 12, 2014

Currently she is developing novel drug strategies for increasing the transcriptional regulation of frataxin to mitigate the detrimental effects of Doxorubicin upon frataxin.

The Alteration of the C-terminal Region of Human Frataxin Distorts its Structural Dynamics and Function

The Alteration of the C-terminal Region of Human Frataxin Distorts its Structural Dynamics and Function. Santiago E. Faraj, Ernesto A. Roman, Martin Aran, Mariana Gallo and Javier Santos; FEBS Journal, Accepted manuscript online: 12 JUN 2014, DOI: 10.1111/febs.12869

In 5% of patients the typical GAA expansion is present in only one fxn allele and a missense mutation is found in the other allele. the disease course in these patients can be as severe as for patients with two expanded alleles.

The Alteration of the C-terminal Region of Human Frataxin Distorts its Structural Dynamics and Function in L198R mutant, or its complete truncation in FXN 81-193 causes FRDA.