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SUBMITTER: Hervas R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3362641 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hervás Rubén R Oroz Javier J Galera-Prat Albert A Goñi Oscar O Valbuena Alejandro A Vera Andrés M AM Gómez-Sicilia Angel A Losada-Urzáiz Fernando F Uversky Vladimir N VN Menéndez Margarita M Laurents Douglas V DV Bruix Marta M Carrión-Vázquez Mariano M
PLoS biology 20120529 5
Amyloidogenic neurodegenerative diseases are incurable conditions with high social impact that are typically caused by specific, largely disordered proteins. However, the underlying molecular mechanism remains elusive to established techniques. A favored hypothesis postulates that a critical conformational change in the monomer (an ideal therapeutic target) in these "neurotoxic proteins" triggers the pathogenic cascade. We use force spectroscopy and a novel methodology for unequivocal single-mol ...[more]