Sentences with phrase «trigger normal proteins»

These can then trigger normal proteins to also misfold, producing a chain reaction that clogs the brain with abnormal proteins and so causing diseases such as vCJD.

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The UPR is triggered when the normal functions of the endoplasmic reticulum — the cell's largest organelle in charge of making and folding proteins — are compromised.

To prove that the UL6 protein sequence does in fact trigger the autoimmune attack of HSK, Cantor and his team have now infected mice with either normal HSV - 1 or a strain that they had genetically altered to lack the UL6 protein.

Now a study has found that the gene mutation's toxic effects require higher than normal levels of a protein called suPAR to trigger the onset and progression of the disease.