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Protein misfolding and aggregation have emerged as significant problems in two quite different arenas. For the medical community, the spontaneous conversion of soluble proteins or protein fragments into fibrillar polymers with regular cross-β-sheet structure is linked to diseases as diverse as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s, type II diabetes, and the prion diseases.
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Murphy, R.M., Lee, C.C. (2006). Laser Light Scattering as an Indispensable Tool for Probing Protein Aggregation. In: Misbehaving Proteins. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36063-8_7
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