How Copper Folds Protein into Parkinson's Plaques

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 09:01 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at North Carolina State University have figured out how copper induces misfolding in the protein associated with Parkinson's disease, leading to creation of the fibrillar plaques which characterize the disease.

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