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Peptidyl-prolyl isomerase activity of FK506 binding protein 12 prevents tau peptide from aggregating.
Protein engineering, design & selection : PEDS - 1 Sept 2013
Ikura Teikichi, Ito Nobutoshi
Abstract excerpt
The Alzheimer's disease-related protein, tau, aggregates into neurofibrillary tangles when it is hyperphosphorylated. The amino acid sequence included in the third repeat (R3) of the microtubule-binding region is suspected to be the main factor for tau aggregation. Here, we synthesized a 31-resid...
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