Self-organization of short peptide fragments: from amyloid fibrils to nanoscale supramolecular assemblies

S Gilead, E Gazit - Supramolecular Chemistry, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… One study of amyloid fibrils formation … peptide fragment that can form amyloid fibrils, we
discovered that the diphenylalanine recognition motif of the Alzheimer's β-amyloid polypeptide

Mechanisms of amyloid fibril self‐assembly and inhibition: Model short peptides as a key research tool

E Gazit - The FEBS journal, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… In this minireview, we will focus on the experimental use of short peptide fragments as an
important research tool for investigating the molecular recognition and self-assembly …

History of the amyloid fibril

JD Sipe, AS Cohen - Journal of structural biology, 2000 - Elsevier
… , with the direction of the polypeptide backbone perpendicular to the fibril axis (cross beta …
acid sequencing, led to the identification of fragments (usually) of about 20 normally soluble …

Molecular conformation of a peptide fragment of transthyretin in an amyloid fibril

CP Jaroniec, CE MacPhee, NS Astrof… - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
… The molecular conformation of peptide fragment 105–115 of transthyretin, TTR(105–115),
previously shown to form amyloid fibrils in vitro, has been determined by magic-angle …

Formation and seeding of amyloid fibrils from wild-type hen lysozyme and a peptide fragment from the β-domain

MRH Krebs, DK Wilkins, EW Chung… - Journal of molecular …, 2000 - Elsevier
… here that the two peptide fragments corresponding to the region 49–64 of the β-domain also
form fibrils with the characteristic morphology and generic structure of amyloid (Sunde et al., …

Amyloid fibril formation by pentapeptide and tetrapeptide fragments of human calcitonin

M Reches, Y Porat, E Gazit - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2002 - ASBMB
… in the process of amyloid fibril formation, we studied the ability of a short aromatic charged
peptide fragment of calcitonin (NH 2 -DFNKF-COOH) to form amyloid fibrils. Here, using …

Amyloid fibril formation from full-length and fragments of amylin

C Goldsbury, K Goldie, J Pellaud, J Seelig… - Journal of structural …, 2000 - Elsevier
… This report examines the ability of fulllength and truncated variants of human amylin (hA)
to form amyloid fibrils in vitro, and it seeks to determine the contribution individual peptide

The protofilament substructure of amyloid fibrils

LC Serpell, M Sunde, MD Benson, GA Tennent… - Journal of molecular …, 2000 - Elsevier
… , or their fragments, as insoluble amyloid fibrils causes the … type of amyloidosis is
characterised by a specific amyloid fibril … An amyloid fibril composed of a ten-residue peptide can …

Preparation and characterization of purified amyloid fibrils

J Zurdo, JI Guijarro, CM Dobson - Journal of the American …, 2001 - ACS Publications
… ultra-centrifugation of pepsin- digested fibrils shows no detectable peptide fragments (Figure
2b), … Finally, mass spectrometric (MS) analysis of samples of solubilized amyloid fibrils after …

Amyloid Fibril Formation by Aβ16-22, a Seven-Residue Fragment of the Alzheimer's β-Amyloid Peptide, and Structural Characterization by Solid State NMR

JJ Balbach, Y Ishii, ON Antzutkin, RD Leapman… - Biochemistry, 2000 - ACS Publications
… of amyloid fibrils by the seven-residue peptide N-acetyl-Lys-Leu-Val-Phe-Phe-Ala-Glu-NH
2 and describe structural measurements on these fibrils by solid state NMR. The peptide, …