Exploiting amyloid: How and why bacteria use cross-β fibrils

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 728-734

  Sawyer, Elizabeth B ^a   Claessen, Dennis ^b   Gras, Sally L ^c   Perrett, Sarah ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biofilm; Chaplin; Curli; Fimbria; Functional amyloid; Streptomyces coelicolor

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN CHAPLIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BIOFILM; CONFERENCE PAPER; FUNGUS GROWTH; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMYLOID; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 84864386161     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST20120013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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