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Danger — misfolding proteins

Protein folding is vital to living organisms because it adds functional flesh to the bare bones of genes. But errors in this process generate misfolded structures that can be lethal.

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Figure 1: The problem of protein aggregation.

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Ellis, R., Pinheiro, T. Danger — misfolding proteins. Nature 416, 483–484 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/416483a

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