The emergence of bacterial prions

R Giraldo - PLoS pathogens, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Prions are proteins that can adopt at least 2 distinct conformations (structural states), being
one of them soluble, either natively folded or intrinsically disordered, and the other an …

Amyloid signaling in antiphage defense

L Ibarlosa, S Dheur, C Sanchez, S Deb… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Immune regulated cell death (RCD) is a defense strategy common to different domains of life
involving purposeful sacrifice of infected cells. In animals and fungi, functional amyloids play …