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Hsp70 and antifibrillogenic peptides promote degradation and inhibit intracellular aggregation of amyloidogenic light chains.
The Journal of cell biology - 19 Feb 2001
Dul J L, Davis D P, Williamson E K, Stevens F J, Argon Y
Abstract excerpt
In light chain (LC) amyloidosis an immunoglobulin LC assembles into fibrils that are deposited in various tissues. Little is known about how these fibrils form in vivo. We previously showed that a known amyloidogenic LC, SMA, can give rise to amyloid fibrils in vitro when a segment of one of its beta sheets undergoes a conformational change, exposing an Hsp70 binding site. To examine SMA aggregation in vivo, we...
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