[mutant proteins form annular protofibrils (similar to pore-forming bacterial toxins), suggesting that inappropriate membrane permeabilization might be the cause of cell dysfunction and even cell death in amyloid diseases, as Alzheimers and Parkinsons ]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE