Sentences with phrase «shape of amyloid proteins»

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But researchers in Italy and the United Kingdom reported in April that many different types of normal proteins — with no known link to diseases — can also fold into shapes indistinguishable from the dreaded amyloid fibrils.

The TOMM40 gene encodes a barrel - shaped protein in the outer membrane of mitochondria that forms a channel for molecules — including the precursor to amyloid — to enter.