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Emerging novel concept of chaperone therapies for protein misfolding diseases.
Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series B, Physical and biological sciences - 1 Jan 2014
Suzuki Yoshiyuki
Abstract excerpt
Chaperone therapy is a newly developed molecular therapeutic approach to protein misfolding diseases. Among them we found unstable mutant enzyme proteins in a few lysosomal diseases, resulting in rapid intracellular degradation and loss of function. Active-site binding low molecular competitive inhibitors (chemical chaperones) paradoxically stabilized and enhanced the enzyme activity in somatic cells by...
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