Ployglutamine pathogenesis analyzing method
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- SHENZHEN INST OF ADVANCED TECH CHINESE ACAD OF SCI
- Publication Date
- 2014-07-02
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Abstract
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【Technical field】
[0001] The invention relates to bioinformatics, in particular to a method for analyzing the pathogenic mechanism of polyglutamine based on a parallel population simulated annealing algorithm. 【Background technique】
[0002] Polyglutamine (polyQ) disease is a nervous system dysfunction disease caused by abnormal repeat expansion of trinucleotide CAG gene leading to polyglutamine protein. There are nine types of polyglutamine diseases, and the causative proteins and corresponding genes are different, but their common feature is the formation of insoluble protein aggregates in the brain cells of patients, with a common polyglutamine (polyQ ) fragment.
[0003] How polyglutamine proteins misfold and aggregate, leading to disease remains to be understood. Like most other neurodegenerative diseases (eg, Alzheimer's disease), polyglutamine disease is associated with misfolding of polyglutamine proteins. When the length of polyglutamine protein reaches 35-40 ami...