过渡网络揭示了由糖氨基甘油或脂质引起的Aβ中的混乱到秩序转换

Moritz Schäffler1,2, Suman Samantray1, Birgit Strodel1,2

  • 1Institute of Biological Information Processing, Structural Biochemistry (IBI-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany.

概括

阿尔茨海默病的研究揭示了粉样β (Aβ) 如何在糖氨基 (GAG) 和脂质附近改变形状. 这些由不同的机制驱动的形状变化影响了Aβ聚合和阿尔茨海默病的发病.

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