Huntington's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with glutamate receptor dysfunction. Now Isabel Pérez-Otaño and colleagues report that the HTT protein that aggregates in the brains of individuals with the disease disrupts the ability of the adaptor protein PACSIN1 to keep the glutamate receptor subunit GluN3A away from the surface of neurons.
- Sonia Marco
- Albert Giralt
- Isabel Pérez-Otaño