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Kinetic control in protein folding for light chain amyloidosis and the differential effects of somatic mutations.
Journal of molecular biology - 23 Jan 2014
Blancas-Mejía Luis M, Tischer Alexander, Thompson James R, Tai Jonathan, Wang Lin, Auton Matthew, Ramirez-Alvarado Marina
Abstract excerpt
Light chain amyloidosis is a devastating disease where immunoglobulin light chains form amyloid fibrils, resulting in organ dysfunction and death. Previous studies have shown a direct correlation between the protein thermodynamic stability and the propensity for amyloid formation for some protein...
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