An Engineered Viral Protease Exhibiting Substrate Specificity for a Polyglutamine Stretch Prevents Polyglutamine-Induced Neuronal Cell Death

• Saravanan Sellamuthu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Saravanan Sellamuthu, Bae Hyun Shin

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

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• Bae Hyun Shin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Saravanan Sellamuthu, Bae Hyun Shin

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

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• Hye-Eun Han,

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

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• Sang Min Park,

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

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• Hye Jin Oh,

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

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• Seong-Hwan Rho,

  Affiliation Physics Institute, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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• Yong Jae Lee,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Woo Jin Park

  * E-mail: wjpark@gist.ac.kr

  Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, Korea

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