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Bacterial amyloids.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2012
Zhou Yizhou, Blanco Luz P, Smith Daniel R, Chapman Matthew R
Abstract excerpt
Many bacteria can assemble functional amyloid fibers on their cell surface. The majority of bacterial amyloids contribute to biofilm or other community behaviors where cells interact with a surface or with another cell. Bacterial amyloids, like all functional amyloids, share structural and biochemical properties with disease-associated eukaryotic amyloids. The general ability of amyloids to bind amyloid-specific...
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