Insight into the mechanism of protein aggregation provides a model system that could lead to treatments for several associated diseases The research team included Charlotte Hauser and Anupama ...

Here, we report on the creation of such an artificial enzyme by embedding pAF into the promiscuous binding pocket of the multidrug transcriptional regulator from Lactococcus lactis, LmrR. Strikingly, ...

(Nanowerk News) The assembly of abnormal proteins into aggregates called amyloids is a characteristic of several diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, diabetes type 2 and thyroid cancer.