Proteins Behaving Badly: Misfolding and Alzheimer's Disease
From Q-Bio Seminar Series
By Dr. S. Gnanakaran, Staff Scientist, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
February 17, 2009
Santa Fe Complex (location to be confirmed)
- Abstract
- Proteins are chains of amino acid residues that must fold into three-dimensional shapes to perform their functions. We will examine how protein folding is measured and predicted and how a particular type of misfolding contributes to over 20 debilitating diseases, most notably Alzheimer's disease.
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