Dr Joel Gottesfeld's lab in La Jolla, California (USA), is also working on heterochromatin modifiers as a potential treatment for FRDA, and Dr Gottesfeld started his talk by referencing a paper published by Richard Festenstein's group in 2003 (Nature) as the inspiration. His own work in California has supported the theory that heterochromatin gene silencing occurs in FRDA. The interaction between the active form of the frataxin gene and the inactive (silenced) form is mediated by enzymes called histone deacetylases (HDAC)
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Dr. J. Gottesfeld - HDACi for FA - euro-ATAXIA Conference - Dublin, 25th Sept. 2008 - part 1/3 - Video