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Researchers probe brain disease-causing proteins at the atomic level

A change in a single amino acid determines which species are vulnerable, study finds COLUMBUS, Ohio—Researchers studying a protein that causes a hereditary degenerative brain disease in humans have discovered that the human, mouse and hamster forms of the protein, which have nearly identical amino acid sequences, exhibit distinct three-dimensional structures at the atomic level....