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Parkinson’s protein forms aggregates on membranes

[09-03-2010]

Parkinson's disease is charactarised by lumps of proteins, called plaques. The major component is alpha-Synuclein. Martina Huber and her research team discovered that alpha-Synuclein aggregates on a membrane in a well-defined manner. They make the first structure proposal for an aggregate. Read more (in Dutch) and go to the article