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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Ryan Stephen Burnett
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-5040 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Burnett Ryan R Melander Christian C Puckett James W JW Son Leslie S LS Wells Robert D RD Dervan Peter B PB Gottesfeld Joel M JM
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060720 31
The DNA abnormality found in 98% of Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) patients is the unstable hyperexpansion of a GAA.TTC triplet repeat in the first intron of the frataxin gene. Expanded GAA.TTC repeats result in decreased transcription and reduced levels of frataxin protein in affected individuals. Beta-alanine-linked pyrrole-imidazole polyamides bind GAA.TTC tracts with high affinity and disrupt the intramolecular DNA.DNA-associated region of the sticky-DNA conformation formed by long GAA.TTC repea ...[more]