A Single Enzyme Gone Rogue May Drive Alzheimer’s, and One Molecule Can Calm It Down
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She still calls it Compound 10. Not CPD10, the formal name buried in the patent paperwork, but Compound 10, the way you might refer to a stubborn houseguest you have come to know rather well. Ursula Quitterer has spent close to twenty years getting acquainted with the problem this molecule is meant to fix. And the problem, it turns out, is an enzyme that most of your cells could not live without.
The enzyme is GRK2, and on a normal day it does unglamorous work. It helps cells read incoming signa
The enzyme is GRK2, and on a normal day it does unglamorous work. It helps cells read incoming signa
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