Copper folds protein into precursors of Parkinson's plaques

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers 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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