Description | alpha-synuclein (amino acids 1-140), an acidic neuronal protein of 140 amino acids, is extremely heat-resistant and is natively unfolded with an extended structure primarily composed of random coils. alpha-synuclein has been suggested to be implicated in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease and related neurodegenerative disorders, and more recently, to be an important regulatory component of vesicular transport in neuronal cells. Specially, the non-Abeta component of amyloid plaques (NAC, amino acids 61-95) is a highly amyloidogenic peptide consisting of 35 amino acids which was first identified associated with senile plaques in the Alzheimer's disease brain. |
Other Names | SNCA, NACP, PARK1, alpha-Synuclein Delta-NAC, Non-A beta component of AD amyloid, Non-A4 component of amyloid precursor, NACP, Alpha-synuclein, Alpha synuclein, Alpha-synuclein, isoform NACP140, alphaSYN, MGC105443, MGC110988, MGC127560, MGC64356, Non A beta component of AD amyloid, Non A4 component of amyloid precursor, Non-A-beta component of alzheimers disease amyloid, precursor of, PARK 1, PARK 4, PARK4, Parkinson disease familial 1, PD 1, PD1, Snca synuclein, alpha (non A4 component of amyloid precursor), Synuclein alpha, Synuclein, alpha (non A4 component of amyloid precursor) |