Scientists at the University of Sydney have uncovered a malfunctioning version of the SOD1 protein that clumps inside brain ...

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Normally, the SOD1 protein provides protective benefits to the brain but, in Parkinson’s patients, it becomes faulty, causing the protein to clump and damage brain cells.

Normally, the SOD1 protein provides protective benefits to the brain but, in Parkinson's patients, it becomes faulty, causing the protein to clump and damage brain cells.

Wild-type SOD1 exists as a dimer with bound Cu and Zn, while mutants are misfolded, unable to dimerize or unable to efficiently bind Zn. a, Mutant SOD1 toxicity may result from aberrant oxidative ...

Australian researchers first found abnormal SOD1 in Parkinson's patients' brains in 2017. While normally protective, this protein becomes defective in the disease, clumping and harming brain cells ...

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As reported in 1994, the original SOD1-G93A strain, designated G1, expressed approximately 18 copies of human SOD1, randomly inserted into the genome (Gurney et al., 1994). An unequal crossover event ...