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Cheryl Wellington

Professor, University of British Columbia
Verified email at cmmt.ubc.ca
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Inhibiting caspase cleavage of huntingtin reduces toxicity and aggregate formation in neuronal and nonneuronal cells

CL Wellington, L Ellerby, J Savill, S Roy… - Journal of Biological …, 2000 - ASBMB
Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by CAG expansion that results
in expansion of a polyglutamine tract at the extreme N terminus of huntingtin (htt). htt with …

Caspase cleavage of mutant huntingtin precedes neurodegeneration in Huntington's disease

CL Wellington, LM Ellerby, CA Gutekunst… - Journal of …, 2002 - Soc Neuroscience
Huntington's disease (HD) results from polyglutamine expansion in huntingtin (htt), a protein
with several consensus caspase cleavage sites. Despite the identification of htt fragments in …

Caspase cleavage of gene products associated with triplet expansion disorders generates truncated fragments containing the polyglutamine tract

CL Wellington, LM Ellerby, AS Hackam… - Journal of Biological …, 1998 - ASBMB
The neurodegenerative diseases Huntington disease, dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy,
spinocerebellar atrophy type 3, and spinal bulbar muscular atrophy are caused by expansion …

ABCA1 mRNA and protein distribution patterns predict multiple different roles and levels of regulation

CL Wellington, EKY Walker, A Suarez, A Kwok… - Laboratory …, 2002 - nature.com
Mutations in ABCA1 cause the allelic disorders familial hypolipoproteinemia and Tangier
Disease. To identify where ABCA1 was likely to have a functional role, we determined the …

Deficiency of ABCA1 impairs apolipoprotein E metabolism in brain

…, JS Cohn, MR Hayden, CL Wellington - Journal of Biological …, 2004 - ASBMB
ABCA1 is a cholesterol transporter that is widely expressed throughout the body. Outside
the central nervous system (CNS), ABCA1 functions in the biogenesis of high-density …

[HTML][HTML] Cleavage at the caspase-6 site is required for neuronal dysfunction and degeneration due to mutant huntingtin

…, Z Murphy, SC Warby, CN Doty, S Roy, CL Wellington… - Cell, 2006 - cell.com
Cleavage of huntingtin (htt) has been characterized in vitro, and accumulation of caspase
cleavage fragments represents an early pathological change in brains of Huntington's disease …

[PDF][PDF] Increased sensitivity to N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-mediated excitotoxicity in a mouse model of Huntington's disease

MM Zeron, O Hansson, N Chen, CL Wellington… - Neuron, 2002 - cell.com
Previous work suggests N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) activation may be involved
in degeneration of medium-sized spiny striatal neurons in Huntington's disease (HD). Here …

[HTML][HTML] Huntingtin and huntingtin-associated protein 1 influence neuronal calcium signaling mediated by inositol-(1, 4, 5) triphosphate receptor type 1

…, H Tu, EYW Chan, A Maximov, Z Wang, CL Wellington… - Neuron, 2003 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by polyglutamine expansion (exp) in huntingtin (Htt). The
type 1 inositol (1,4,5)-triphosphate receptor (InsP 3 R1) is an intracellular calcium (Ca 2+ ) …

Vascular dysfunction—the disregarded partner of Alzheimer's disease

…, RD Minshall, J Rehman, TP Davis, CL Wellington… - Alzheimer's & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence recognizes Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a multifactorial and heterogeneous
disease with multiple contributors to its pathophysiology, including vascular dysfunction…

Overexpression of ABCA1 reduces amyloid deposition in the PDAPP mouse model of Alzheimer disease

…, V Hirsch-Reinshagen, CL Wellington… - The Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Clin Investig
APOE genotype is a major genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD). ABCA1,
a member of the ATP-binding cassette family of active transporters, lipidates apoE in the …