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Scripps finds transthyretin can unfold by a second route that skips the dimer step
The four-unit protein can come apart directly when conditions turn acidic, and a screen of more than 100 variants suggests some brain-amyloidosis mutations reach that route at normal blood pH. Whether tafamidis blocks it was not tested.
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