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Thioflavin-S staining coupled to flow cytometry. A screening tool to detect <i>in vivo</i> protein aggregation
24 Jul 2012
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Amyloid deposits are associated with an increasing number of human disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. Recent studies provide compelling evidence for the existence of amyloid-like conformations in the insoluble bacterial inclusion bodies (IBs) produced during the recombinant expression of amyloidogenic proteins. This makes prokaryotic cells a physiologically relevant system to study the...
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