But over the years, as
damaged proteins accumulate in the lens, these chaperones become overwhelmed.
Not exact matches
But in her doctoral dissertation under the guidance of Prof. Glickman, Dr. Daria Krutauz found that in the presence of UBB +1,
damaged proteins are apprehended on their way to the proteasome, and
accumulate without reaching their final recycling destination.
In Alzheimer's disease, plaques of amyloid beta
protein accumulate in the brain,
damaging connections between neurons.
What these illnesses have in common is that they're caused by abnormal
proteins that
accumulate in or between brain cells to form plaques, producing
damage that causes mental decline and early death.
These stressors can also cause XBP - 1s to
accumulate in the cell's nucleus, which promotes the UPR and helps cells withstand the
damaging effects of mis-folded
proteins.
This defective mutant gene causes production of a toxic
protein that progressively
accumulates and
damages the patient's neurons.
In Alzheimer's, this
protein — present in all healthy brains — can
accumulate and clump, developing into cell -
damaging plaque.
The scientists think that phosphorylation enables neurons to remove more of the harmful
protein so it does not
accumulate and
damage the cell.
Moreover, some scientists suggest, that the
damage of the DNA and the corresponding with it «wrong
proteins» is a main factor for the accumulation of «all the cellular gunk», and they suppose, that even after the removal of the «gunc», it will
accumulate again if the DNA remains
damaged.
«One of the hypotheses is that during the aging process, the loss of proteostasis causes
protein damage, which begins to
accumulate.
These
proteins can not be gotten rid of, so the
protein accumulates, and the A.G.E.s
accumulate and continue to
damage.
Results showed significant reductions in oxidized
proteins and lipids — molecules that had been
damaged by
accumulated toxins and waste products.