Is it enough to diminish the activity of specific proteins to prevent the development of many dangerous diseases, including Alzheimer’s symptoms? An article on this topic by Dr. Karolina Mikulska-Rumińska, a biophysicist from the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń was published in PNAS, the prestigious journal of the American National Academy of Sciences. Its first author is.

Her research interests focus on biological structures, primarily proteins. In her work she mainly uses computational methods used in computer simulations.

Interested scholars can read about the latest effects of her work in the article “Recruitment of pro-IL-1α to mitochondrial cardiolipin, via shared LC3 binding domain, inhibits mitophagy and drives maximal NLRP3 activation”. The text deals with the mechanisms of the immune system in inflammatory conditions. Dr.Mikulska-Rumińska and Jargalsaikhan Dagvadorj, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are the first authors of the publication.

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