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Prof Aurora Martinez tells us why chaperones are still in fashion

Prof Aurora Martinez, Department of Biomedicine, provided delegates with an update on the search for new and better chaperone candidates, at the 2014 Annual Multidisciplinary European PKU Symposium.

Prof Aurora Martinez tells us why chaperones are still in fashion - picture from a video by the PKU Academy

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Pharmacological chaperones are chemicals with the ability to restore some, or all function to an enzyme affected by a gene mutation. These have great potential as therapies for PKU and other IEMs, caused by missense mutations.

Read more at the PKU Academy web site.