Unexpected protein could play role in common brain disorder - EurekAlert

Scientists have known ropelike amyloid fibrils are in the brains of patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and likely play a role in the progression of these disorders. Now, UCLA biochemists have discovered such fibrils in the brains of people wit…

image: Left: The protein TMEM106B, with its golf-course-like fold. Right: TMEM106B proteins are layered on top of one another to form amyloid fibrils.view more  Credit: Yi Xiao Jiang, et al. Scient… [+4988 chars]

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