Moss protein plays role in Alzheimer's disease

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Thu, 02/07/2008 - 23:00

Preventing Alzheimer's from developing is a goal of Raphael Kopan, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and pharmacology at the Washington University in St.

Louis School of Medicine. The moss plant studied in the laboratory of Ralph S. Quatrano, Ph.D., Spencer T. Olin Professor of biology, might inch Kopan toward that goal.

Through collaboration, the researchers have found that a gene in moss is also structurally conserved in AD and has similar functions.

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