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Single mutations in tau modulate the populations of fibril conformers through seed selection.
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) - 3 Feb 2014
Meyer Virginia, Dinkel Paul D, Luo Yin, Yu Xiang, Wei Guanghong, Zheng Jie, Eaton Gareth R, Ma Buyong, Nussinov Ruth, Eaton Sandra S, Margittai Martin
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Seeded conversion of tau monomers into fibrils is a central step in the progression of tau pathology in Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Self-assembly is mediated by the microtubule binding repeats in tau. There are either three or four repeats present depending on the protein isoform. Here, double electron-electron resonance spectroscopy was used to investigate the conformational...
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