Cellular "Fabrics" Ensure Error-Free Protein Folding

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Accord work: In our cells there are small factories in which amino acid chains are folded into functional proteins as on the assembly line, as biologists have discovered. Thus, the already known helper proteins, which bring the newly produced proteins into their 3D form, are organized in previously unknown special units: droplet-like condensates. In the absence of these "fabrications", the folding aids make more mistakes and there are diseases s…