synuclein

plural synucleins

1. countableuncountableA small, soluble protein primarily expressed in neural tissue and in certain tumors.

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   One of the hallmarks of the condition is deposits of insoluble fibres of a substance called synuclein. Normally found as small soluble molecules in healthy nerve cells, in people with Parkinson’s, something causes the synuclein molecules to warp into a different shape, making them clump together as fibres.

   2016 December 3, Clare Wilson, “Parkinson’s: we’re looking in the wrong place”, in New Scientist, number 3102, archived from the original on 19 May 2017, page 8