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Cell toxicity and conformational disease.
Trends in cell biology - 1 Nov 2005
Carrell Robin W
Abstract excerpt
Numerous disorders, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other late-onset neurodegenerative diseases, arise from the conformationally driven aggregation of individual proteins. Previous focus on just one end-product of such aggregation - extracellular deposits of amyloid - has diverted attention from what is now recognized as being primarily intracellular disease processes. Recent structural findings show how...
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