Untangling Untidy Folds to Understand Diseases (IMAGE)

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

Untangling Untidy Folds to Understand Diseases

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Copper ions (red spheres) can attach to peptide monomers (blue) and prevent them from clumping together to form oligomers, fibrils and damaging plaques.

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© 2020 Mawadda Alghrably

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