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An accidental breach of a protein's natural defenses

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Two recent studies provide a glimpse of the structure of an intermediate in the formation of β-2-microglobulin fibrils involved in dialysis-related amyloidosis.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of the origin of dialysis related amyloidosis.

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