Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are conserved across species and are important in stress
tolerance. Many sHsps exhibit chaperone-like activity in preventing aggregation of target …

The self‐assembly of several classes of amphiphilic peptides is reviewed, and selected
applications are discussed. We discuss recent work on the self‐assembly of lipopeptides …

Bacillus subtilis forms biofilms whose constituent cells are held together by an extracellular
matrix. Previous studies have shown that the protein TasA and an exopolysaccharide are …

Numerous soluble proteins convert to insoluble amyloid-like fibrils that have common
properties. Amyloid fibrils are associated with fatal diseases such as Alzheimer's, and …

The deposition of proteins in the form of amyloid fibrils and plaques is the characteristic
feature of more than 20 degenerative conditions affecting either the central nervous system …

Amyloids are highly ordered cross-β sheet protein aggregates associated with many
diseases including Alzheimer's disease, but also with biological functions such as hormone …

Recent reports give strong support to the idea that amyloid fibril formation and the
subsequent development of protein deposition diseases originate from conformational …

In the rare medical condition termed injection amyloidosis, extracellular fibrils of insulin are
observed. We found that the segment of the insulin B-chain with sequence LVEALYL is the …

The molecular structure of the amyloid fibril has remained elusive because of the difficulty of
growing well diffracting crystals. By using a sequence-designed polypeptide, we have …

Increasing evidence indicates that many peptides and proteins can be converted in vitro into
highly organised amyloid structures, provided that the appropriate experimental conditions …