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"XREF_BIBR SCA1, SCA2, Machado-Joseph or SCA3, SCA6, SCA7, SCA12, SCA17, and dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) are caused by (CAG) n repeat expansions in the ATXN1, ATXN2, ATXN3, CACNA1A, ATXN7, PPP2R2B, TBP, and ATN1 genes, respectively, and all lead to the expansion of a polyglutamine tract in the corresponding proteins."
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"Interestingly, N-terminal fragments of Atx3 lacking the polyQ stretch were shown to induce an MJD-like phenotype in mice and led to mitochondrial perturbations in cell models, pointing toward their participation in the molecular pathogenesis (Hübener et al., 2011; Harmuth et al., 2018)."
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"Co-expression of wild-type ataxin-3 and pathogenic polyQ-expanded ataxin-3 restored the degeneration of Drosophila eyes that is observed with expression of polyQ-expanded ataxin-3 alone, and flies co-expressing both forms of ataxin-3 lived longer than flies expressing only the pathogenic form [162]."
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"Given the clear implication of ubiquitin pathway genes in retinal development and pathology and the genetic link between cerebellar dysfunction and retinal anomalies in other SCAs (McLaughlin and Dryja, 2002), we aimed to explore the function of ATXN3, whose mutation causes MJD/SCA3, in the retina.Because humans, mice, and zebrafish show similar mature retinal structures (Figure 1A), here, we combine in vivo zebrafish and mouse models and in vitro cells."
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"XREF_BIBR, XREF_BIBR Here we evaluate the efficiency of non-allele-specific ASOs targeting human ATXN3 in two complementary transgenic mouse models of SCA3 : the yeast artificial chromosome (YAC) MJD-Q84.2 (Q84) model expressing the full-length human ATXN3 disease gene with 84 CAG repeats, and the cytomegalovirus (CMV) MJD-Q135 (Q135) model expressing a single human ATXN3 isoform from an ATXN3 cDNA with 135 CAG repeats."