Proteins and their diseases Flashcards
1
Q
Amyloid beta Peptide (tau)
A
Alzheimer’s Disease (AS)
2
Q
alpha - synuclein
A
Parkinson’s Disease
3
Q
HD
A
Huntington’s disease
4
Q
SOD1
A
Amyotrofic lateral sclerosis
5
Q
Tau
A
Frontotemporal lobar degeneration/ AD/ CTE
6
Q
PrP
A
BSE/CJD/Scrapie
7
Q
who won a nobel prize for discovering prions?
A
Stanley Prusiner
1st case of infectious agent being a protein (not virus or bacteria)
8
Q
p53 protein misfolding causes:
A
Cancer
p53 induces apoptosis
9
Q
p53 protein is the:
A
tumor suppressor protein