... ±Birkprotease inhibitors [5], metallothioneins [6], prothymosina [7], a bacterial ®bronectin-binding protein [8], the brainprotein a-synuclein together with the related proteinsb-synuclein and c-synuclein ... aglobular protein c ontaining a similar number o f residues, asobserved in the caseins [3], synucleins [10], tau [14],prothymosin a [7] and the ®bronectin-binding protein [8],and also in typical chemically ... relies mainly on theevidence outlined above. In view of the c lose similarity of the ROA spectra of thecasein, synuclein and tau proteins shown in t his paper, wehave reproduced in F ig. 1...