α-Synuclein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases

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Alpha-synuclein is a neuronal protein originally identified in Alzheimer's disease (AD) amyloid plaques in 1993 and named non-Abeta component precursor (NACP) [92]. Later, the discovery of two missense mutations (G88C and G209A), which resulted in Ala30Pro (A30P) and Ala53Thr (A53T) substitutions, of the alpha-synuclein gene in certain autosomal-dominant early onset familial Parkinson's disease (PD) has greatly...

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