A study published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology now unveils, at the atomic level, the initial mechanisms of prion toxicity, providing insights into the pathogenic mechanisms of a protein neurodegenerative disease caused by protein misfolding.
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J.R.R. is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant PID2020-117465GB-I00, partially funded by EU funds).
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Requena, J.R. Unlatching a window into the molecular landscape of prion toxicity. Nat Struct Mol Biol 29, 733–735 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41594-022-00817-4
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