Small heat shock proteins could represent new agent against Alzheimer’s

A group of researchers at Technical University of Munich and the Helmholtz Zentrum München (both Germany) have successfully uncovered the mechanism of interaction between small heat shock proteins and other proteins. The findings may help in the development of small heat shock proteins as a method for counteracting the characteristic clumping of proteins in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Despite researchers being aware of the ability of small heat shock proteins to prevent badly folded proteins from clumping together, the precise role of small heat shock proteins was previously unknown. The new study, led by Bernd Reif (Technical University of...