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A precipitating role for truncated alpha-synuclein and the proteasome in alpha-synuclein aggregation: implications for pathogenesis of Parkinson disease.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 17 Jun 2005
Liu Chang-Wei, Giasson Benoit I, Lewis Karen A, Lee Virginia M, Demartino George N, Thomas Philip J
Abstract excerpt
Parkinson disease and other alpha-synucleinopathies are characterized by the deposition of intraneuronal alpha-synuclein (alphaSyn) inclusions. A significant fraction (about 15%) of alphaSyn in these pathological structures are truncated forms that have a much higher propensity than the full-leng...
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