Strategies for making high‐performance artificial spider silk fibers

B Schmuck, G Greco, TB Pessatti… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial spider silk is an attractive material for many technical applications since it is a
biobased fiber that can be produced under ambient conditions but still outcompetes …

Food-derived protein amyloid-like fibrils: Fibrillation mechanism, structure, and recent advances for the stabilization of emulsions

Y Xu, C Ma, Y Yang, X Bian, X Liu, Y Wang, N Zhang - Food Hydrocolloids, 2023 - Elsevier
Food-derived protein amyloid-like fibrils (PAFs) are fibrous structure formed from proteins
under strong acidic and high thermal conditions for long durations to form fibrous structure …

Designed peptides as nanomolar cross-amyloid inhibitors acting via supramolecular nanofiber co-assembly

K Taş, BD Volta, C Lindner, O El Bounkari… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Amyloid self-assembly is linked to numerous devastating cell-degenerative diseases.
However, designing inhibitors of this pathogenic process remains a major challenge. Cross …

Current strategies of detecting Aβ species and inhibiting Aβ aggregation: Status and prospects

J Li, W Liao, D Huang, M Ou, T Chen, X Wang… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a central neurodegenerative disorder characterized by
behavioral disturbance and progressive cognitive impairment, and it is common in pre …

Structural biology of ex vivo mammalian prions

E Artikis, A Kraus, B Caughey - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2022 - ASBMB
The structures of prion protein (PrP)–based mammalian prions have long been elusive.
However, cryo-EM has begun to reveal the near-atomic resolution structures of fully …

Using titanium dioxide nanoparticle-deposited whey protein isolate amyloid fibrils to photocatalyze the degradation of methylene blue

YR Lai, CF Huang, SC How, TH Lin… - Journal of the Taiwan …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO 2 NPs) have been widely used in
photocatalytic reactions, but their tendency to aggregate reduces their photocatalytic activity …

Self-assembling peptides and carbon nanomaterials join forces for innovative biomedical applications

P Rozhin, C Charitidis, S Marchesan - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Self-assembling peptides and carbon nanomaterials have attracted great interest for their
respective potential to bring innovation in the biomedical field. Combination of these two …

Molecular Insights into the Self‐Assembly of Block Copolymer Suckerin Polypeptides into Nanoconfined β‐Sheets

Y Liu, Y Wang, C Tong, G Wei, F Ding, Y Sun - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Suckerin in squid sucker ring teeth is a block‐copolymer peptide comprised of two repeating
modules—the alanine and histidine‐rich M1 and the glycine‐rich M2. Suckerin self …

Self-replication of Aβ42 aggregates occurs on small and isolated fibril sites

S Curk, J Krausser, G Meisl, D Frenkel… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Self-replication of amyloid fibrils via secondary nucleation is an intriguing physicochemical
phenomenon in which existing fibrils catalyze the formation of their own copies. The …

Formation of hen egg white lysozyme derived amyloid-based hydrogels using different gelation agents: A potential tool for drug delivery

P Seth, A Mukherjee, N Sarkar - International Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Amyloids are highly stable protein fibrillar aggregates that get deposited in various parts of
our body and cause detrimental diseases. But in nature, the presence of functional amyloids …