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• Protein origami: Quick folders are the best
  

  The evolutionary history of proteins shows that protein folding is an important factor. Especially the speed of protein folding plays a key role. This was the result of a computer analysis carried out by researchers at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the University of Ill more

• How disordered proteins spread from cell to cell, potentially spreading disease
  

  One bad apple is all it takes to spoil the barrel. And one misfolded protein may be all that's necessary to corrupt other proteins, forming large aggregations linked to several incurable neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington's, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.Stanford biology Professor Ron Kopit more

• Peripheral Induction of Alzheimer-Like Brain Pathology in Mice

  Pathological protein deposits linked to Alzheimer's disease and cerebral amyloid angiopathy can be triggered not only by the administration of pathogenic misfolded protein fragments directly into the brain but also by peripheral administration outside the brain. This is shown in a new study done by more

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• Disulfide bonds in amyloidogenesis diseases related proteins

  Abstract More than twenty human diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and prion disease, originate from the deposition of misfolded proteins. These proteins, referred as amyloidogenic proteins, adopt a β‐sheet‐rich structure when transformed from soluble state into insolub more

• Under‐folded proteins: Conformational ensembles and their roles in protein folding, function and pathogenesis

  Abstract For decades, protein function was intimately linked to the presence of a unique, aperiodic crystal‐like structure in a functional protein. The two only places for conformational ensembles of under‐folded (or partially folded) protein forms in this picture were either the end points of t more

• Recent progress in prion and prion-like protein aggregation

  Prion diseases and prion-like protein misfolding diseases involve the accumulation of abnormally aggregated forms of the normal host proteins, such as prion protein and Tau protein. These proteins are special because of their self-duplicating and transmissible characteristics. Such abnormally aggre more

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