It is thought that clumps of alpha-synuclein accumulate because brain cells cannot remove them through autophagy - a type of programmedcelldeath.
研究者认为,共核蛋白的大量积累是因为脑细胞不能通过自吞噬(一种细胞的程序性死亡)消除它们。
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Once they had the right combination, the researchers designed a synthetic gene which codes for a protein that promotes apoptosis, or programmedcelldeath.