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==''Medical Importance''==

Protein folding has several medical implications. Diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, and Parkinson's Disease can all be traced back to protein folding because proteins can form aberrant aggregates when they do not fold correctly. This abnormaility can be ~~fatally~~ toxic to human nerve cells. During folding, proteins sometimes make ~~a mistake~~. Each protein contains <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic-hydrophilic/1'>hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues</scene>. The hydrophilic residues lie on the outer part of the protein and the hydrophobic residues bury themselves due to the hydrophobic effect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic_effect]. In the case of these aggregates, the mistake exposes "sticky" <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic/1'>hydrophobic patches</scene> of the interior that can cause several proteins to stick to one another. In the future researchers hope to design drugs that combat mistakes in protein folding. The use of ribonuclease A in protein folding research has been an instrumental feature in designing experiments to determine these "misfolding" snapshots and in developing therapies to prevent this problem in the future.

Protein folding has several medical implications. Diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, and Parkinson's Disease can all be traced back to protein folding because proteins can form aberrant aggregates when they do not fold correctly. This abnormaility can be toxic to human nerve cells. During folding, proteins sometimes make mistakes. Each protein contains <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic-hydrophilic/1'>hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues</scene>. The hydrophilic residues lie on the outer part of the protein and the hydrophobic residues bury themselves due to the hydrophobic effect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic_effect]. In the case of these aggregates, the mistake exposes "sticky" <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic/1'>hydrophobic patches</scene> of the interior that can cause several proteins to stick to one another. In the future researchers hope to design drugs that combat mistakes in protein folding. The use of ribonuclease A in protein folding research has been an instrumental feature in designing experiments to determine these "misfolding" snapshots and in developing therapies to prevent this problem in the future.

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 ==''Medical Importance''==
-Protein folding has several medical implications. Diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, and Parkinson's Disease can all be traced back to protein folding because proteins can form aberrant aggregates when they do not fold correctly.  This abnormaility can be fatally toxic to human nerve cells.  During folding, proteins sometimes make a mistake.  Each protein contains <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic-hydrophilic/1'>hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues</scene>.  The hydrophilic residues lie on the outer part of the protein and the hydrophobic residues bury themselves due to the hydrophobic effect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic_effect]. In the case of these aggregates, the mistake exposes "sticky" <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic/1'>hydrophobic patches</scene> of the interior that can cause several proteins to stick to one another.  In the future researchers hope to design drugs that combat mistakes in protein folding.  The use of ribonuclease A in protein folding research has been an instrumental feature in designing experiments to determine these "misfolding" snapshots and in developing therapies to prevent this problem in the future.
+Protein folding has several medical implications. Diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer's Disease, and Parkinson's Disease can all be traced back to protein folding because proteins can form aberrant aggregates when they do not fold correctly.  This abnormaility can be toxic to human nerve cells.  During folding, proteins sometimes make mistakes.  Each protein contains <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic-hydrophilic/1'>hydrophobic and hydrophilic residues</scene>.  The hydrophilic residues lie on the outer part of the protein and the hydrophobic residues bury themselves due to the hydrophobic effect [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic_effect]. In the case of these aggregates, the mistake exposes "sticky" <scene name='Sandbox_Reserved_197/Hydrophobic/1'>hydrophobic patches</scene> of the interior that can cause several proteins to stick to one another.  In the future researchers hope to design drugs that combat mistakes in protein folding.  The use of ribonuclease A in protein folding research has been an instrumental feature in designing experiments to determine these "misfolding" snapshots and in developing therapies to prevent this problem in the future.
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