New Insights Into Drug Discovery Targeting Tau Protein

Microtubule-associated protein tau is characterized by the fact that it is an intrinsically disordered protein due to its lack of a stable conformation and high flexibility. Intracellular inclusions of fibrillar forms of tau with a β-sheet structure accumulate in the brain of patients with Alzheimer...

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Main Authors: Yoshiyuki Soeda, Akihiko Takashima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnmol.2020.590896/full