Repeat Proteins Tied to Neurodegeneration (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Repeat Proteins Tied to Neurodegeneration (1 of 3)

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Green poly-GA core in a TDP43-inclusion with blue nucleus in the hippocampus of a C9orf72 mutation carrier. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 7, 2013, issue of Science Express, published by AAAS. The paper, by Kohji Mori at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich in Munich, Germany, and colleagues was titled, “The C9orf72 GGGGCC Repeat Is Translated into Aggregating Dipeptide-Repeat Proteins in FTLD/ALS.”

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[Image courtesy of Kohji Mori and Dieter Edbauer]

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