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Protein folding
Email: Kenneth Lee - kenlee_fr@yahoo.fr News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010312-03
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The characteristic protein aggregates seen in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's or Creutzfeldt–Jakob diseases are caused by the proteins adopting abnormal shapes called amyloid fibrils. In the 8 March Nature, Christopher Dobson and colleagues at the Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences, UK, report that proteins outside the brain are also capable of assuming abnormal 'amyloid' structures.
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