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  • Title: Neuritic plaque amyloid in Alzheimer's disease is highly racemized.
    Author: Shapira R, Austin GE, Mirra SS.
    Journal: J Neurochem; 1988 Jan; 50(1):69-74. PubMed ID: 3121789.
    Abstract:
    Neuritic plaque core amyloid protein in Alzheimer's disease brain tissue was investigated for the extent of amino acid racemization. Long-lived human proteins exhibit racemization of certain amino acids over the course of a human lifetime. Purified core amyloid was found to contain relatively large proportions of D-aspartate and D-serine, suggesting that neuritic plaque amyloid is derived from a long-lived precursor protein. Alternatively, racemization of protein amino acids may be abnormally accelerated in Alzheimer's disease.
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