-β ((1-42) ,

Lothar Gremer1,2, Daniel Schölzel1,2, Carla Schenk1

  • 1Institute of Complex Systems, Structural Biochemistry (ICS-6), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 9, 2017
PubMed
まとめ

アルツハイマー病の鍵となるアミロイドベータ (Aβ) 線維の原子構造を研究者が明らかにした. この構造は,Aβタンパク質の集積がどのように形成されるかを示し,病気のメカニズムと潜在的な治療目標の洞察を提供します.

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