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Alzheimer’s: Copper transport in blood provides fresh clues
Bonded to protein molecules, copper is a vital component of numerous enzymes that catalyze key metabolic reactions.“Biochemists have known about the importance of copper in the human body for a long time, but even they do not know, for example, how this element reaches from our food to the right destinations, i.e., various copper enzymes,” says Prof. Peep Palumaa, head of the Research Group of Metalloproteomics at Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia.Copper is present in trace amounts throughout the body.