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Cryo-EM structure of amyloid fibril formed by α-synuclein hereditary A53E mutation reveals a distinct protofilament interface.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 1 Apr 2023
Sun Chuanqi, Zhou Kang, DePaola Peter, Shin Woo Shik, Hillyer Trae, Sawaya Michael R, Zhu Ruowei, Peng Chao, Zhou Z Hong, Jiang Lin
Abstract excerpt
Synucleinopathies like Parkinson's disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple systems atrophy (MSA), have the same pathologic feature of misfolded α-synuclein protein (α-syn) accumulation in the brain. PD patients who carry α-syn hereditary mutations tend to have earlier onset and more severe clinical symptoms than sporadic PD patients. Therefore, revealing the effect of hereditary mutations to...
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