Researchers identify body's 'quality control' regulator for protein folding, could lead to targeted treatments

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Aug 12, 2024, 3:00 pm177 pts
Anyone who's tried to neatly gather a fitted sheet can tell you: folding is hard. Get it wrong with your laundry and the result can be a crumpled, wrinkled mess of fabric, but when folding fails among the approximately 7,000 proteins with an origami-like complexity that regulate essential cellular functions,…

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Researchers identify body's 'quality control' regulator for protein folding, could lead to targeted treatments

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