Brain Disorders: When One Bad Protein Spoils the Whole Bunch

Cells are complex structures that held together by a thread-like web known as the cytoskeleton. Tiny tubes called microtubules major part of Microtubules can be assembled, disassembled, and reassembled again like Lego bricks. especially abundant in nerve cells brain. To do their jobs, call upon special helpers tau proteins, which keep from crumbling attaching themselves to surface tubes. Unfortunately, may sometimes quit jobs become troublemakers cell. The result is unraveling microtubules, destruction cytoskeleton, eventual death A serious disease arises because malfunctioning proteins tauopathy. In this article, we will describe function explain what happens when they turn against