Description
The Functional Fold
Amyloid Structures in Nature
Coordinators: Jarvis Suzi, Mostaert Anika
Language: English
Subjects for The Functional Fold:
Keywords
Functional Amyloids; Amyloid Fibrils; Hagfish Slime Threads; Amyloid Structures; Silkmoth Chorion: A Natural Protective Amyloid; Congo Red Binding; Spider Silk; Amyloid Formation; Curli Extracellular Matrix; Amyloid Fibres; Amyloid-Based Natural Adhesives and Cements; Slime Threads; X-ray Fibre Diffraction Pattern; Congo Red; Prion Proteins; PrP; Prion Phenotypes; Sea Water; Slime Gland; Yeast Prions; Intermediate Filaments; Chorion Proteins; Barnacle Cement; Molecular Chaperones; Solid State NMR Technique; Fungal Biology; Dragline Silk; Recombinant Spider Silk Protein; Spider Silk Proteins
300 p. · 15.2x22.9 cm · Paperback
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Bringing together a wide variety of examples of functional amyloid in a single volume, this book explores the importance of amyloid fibrils in fungi, bacteria, algae, invertebrate, and vertebrate animals for providing environmental protection, structural integrity, and regulating biochemical processes. It highlights many of the extraordinary examples of functional amyloid found to date. It, therefore, provides an exciting perspective for the study of amyloid deposits as important and useful protein structures widespread in nature.