Probing protein aggregation

摘要

In 2006 an estimated 26.6 million people worldwide had Alzheimer's disease and those numbers are expected to have quadrupled by the year 2050. Now scientists in the US have developed a probe to better understand protein aggregation processes linked to the disease.rnSongi Han at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and coworkers made the nitroxide-based molecule, which can be attached to specific amino acid sites in a protein.