The Functional Fold

Amyloid Structures in Nature
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-981-4267-40-3
Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 448 g

Bringing together a wide variety of examples of functional amyloid in a single volume, this book explores the importance of amyloid fibrils in fungi, bacteria, algae, invertebrate, and vertebrate animals for providing environmental protection, structural integrity, and regulating biochemical processes. It highlights many of the extraordinary examples of functional amyloid found to date. It provides an exciting perspective for the study of amyloid deposits as important and useful protein structures widespread in nature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jarvis, Suzi

Mostaert, Anika

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Proteinforschung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Curli Extracellular Matrix (I Cherney); Natural Adhesives (A Mostaert & S Jarvis); Hagfish Slime Threads (D Fudge); Spider Silk (T Scheibel et al.); Fungal Fibrils (M Sunde et al.); Silkmoth Chorion (S Hamodrakas & V Iconomidou); Yeast Prions (R Melki & L Bousset); Mammalian Functional Amyloid (D Fowler et al.); Unfolding the Future (S Jarvis & A Mostaert).