Influence of the macromolecular crowder alginate in the fibrillar organization of the functional amyloid FapC from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2021.109062
Abstract: Bacterial biofilms are an alternative lifestyle in which communities of bacteria are embedded in an extracellular matrix manly composed by polysaccharides, nucleic acids and proteins, being the hallmark of bacterial survival in a variety of… read more here.
Keywords: alginate; macromolecular crowder; functional amyloid; amyloid ... See more keywords
Functional amyloid in a lipid-like environment: a merry dance of many steps.
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DOI: 10.1042/ebc20220062
Abstract: Functional amyloid, which unlike its pathological counterpart serves a biological purpose, is produced in a carefully orchestrated sequence of events. In bacteria, the major amyloid component is transported over the periplasm and through the outer… read more here.
Keywords: lipid like; environment merry; amyloid lipid; like environment ... See more keywords
Direct Identification of Functional Amyloid Proteins by Label-Free Quantitative Mass Spectrometry
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DOI: 10.3390/biom7030058
Abstract: Functional amyloids are important structural and functional components of many biofilms, yet our knowledge of these fascinating polymers is limited to a few examples for which the native amyloids have been isolated in pure form.… read more here.
Keywords: functional amyloid; amyloid; free quantitative; amyloid proteins ... See more keywords