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Engineered alpha-synuclein prevents wild type and familial Parkin variant fibril formation.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications - 23 Sept 2005
Sode Koji, Usuzaka Eri, Kobayashi Natsuki, Ochiai Sayaka
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Alpha-synuclein is a major component of several pathological lesions diagnostic of specific neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson's disease. This study focuses on the non-amyloid beta component of Alzheimer's disease amyloid, a key region for the aggregation and fibril formation of alpha-synuclein. Several mutations were introduced in an attempt to repress beta-strand formation and hydrophobic...
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