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Quantitative analysis of α-synuclein solubility in living cells using split GFP complementation.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Kothawala Ahmed, Kilpatrick Kiri, Novoa Jose Andres, Segatori Laura
Abstract excerpt
Presently incurable, Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder and affects 1% of the population over 60 years of age. The hallmarks of PD pathogenesis are the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta, and the occurrence of proteinaceous cytoplasmic inclusions (Lewy bodies) in surviving neurons. Lewy bodies are mainly composed of the pre-synaptic...
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