Answer to Question #879 in Molecular Biology for khadak

Question

What is misfolding of protein means?
Is it beneficial or harmful to us?
What are impacts on life?
Does it harm to us if we ingest such proteins?

Answer 1

Misfolding is wrong shaping, incorrect folding of proteins.
It's harmful.
It causes huge amount of diseases and such as Alzheimer's Disease, polyneuropathy, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Huntington's and Parkinson's disease and others.
No, we can eat boiled eggs without any consequences and injuries.