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Wild-type and mutant SOD1 share an aberrant conformation and a common pathogenic pathway in ALS.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Nov 2010
Bosco Daryl A, Morfini Gerardo, Karabacak N Murat, Song Yuyu, Gros-Louis Francois, Pasinelli Piera, Goolsby Holly, Fontaine Benjamin A, Lemay Nathan, McKenna-Yasek Diane, Frosch Matthew P, Agar Jeffrey N, Julien Jean-Pierre, Brady Scott T, Brown Robert H
Abstract excerpt
Many mutations confer one or more toxic function(s) on copper/zinc superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) that impair motor neuron viability and cause familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (FALS). Using a conformation-specific antibody that detects misfolded SOD1 (C4F6), we found that oxidized wild-type SOD1 and mutant SOD1 share a conformational epitope that is not present in normal wild-type SOD1. In a subset of human...
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