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01-08-2005 | Letter to the Editor
14-3-3 proteins in Lewy body-like hyaline inclusions in a patient with familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis with a two-base pair deletion in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene
Authors:
Yasuhiro Kawamoto, Ichiro Akiguchi, Harutoshi Fujimura, Yoshitomo Shirakashi, Yasuyuki Honjo, Saburo Sakoda
Published in:
Acta Neuropathologica
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Issue 2/2005
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Excerpt
14-3-3 proteins are molecular chaperones that regulate various types of signal transduction pathways through phosphorylation-dependent protein-protein interactions [
1]. Recently, we demonstrated the immunohistochemical localization of 14-3-3 proteins in Lewy body-like hyaline inclusions (LBHIs) in patients with sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SALS) [
6]. In the present study, we performed immunohistochemical studies on 14-3-3 proteins in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections from a patient with familial ALS (FALS), with a two-base pair deletion in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene, using anti-peptide antibodies that were already confirmed to be specific for human 14-3-3 proteins [
4,
5]. …