Structures of Parkinson’s disease-linked proteins offer a framework for understanding how they work together (IMAGE)

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Structures of Parkinson’s disease-linked proteins offer a framework for understanding how they work together

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Hanwen Zhu, PhD, left, and Ji Sun, PhD, center, of the Dept. of Structural Biology, and Martin Turk, PhD, right, of the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center discuss the structure of the active form of LRRK2 in complex with Rab29, two proteins implicated in the onset of Parkinson’s disease.

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