Polymer physics inspired approaches for the study of the mechanical properties of amyloid fibrils

Hybrid Nanocomposites of Gold Single-Crystal Platelets and Amyloid Fibrils with Tunable Fluorescence, Conductivity, and Sensing Properties

(2013) Chaoxu Li et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Nanotopographic Surfaces with Defined Surface Chemistries from Amyloid Fibril Networks Can Control Cell Attachment

(2013) Nicholas P. Reynolds et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Structural ensemble and microscopic elasticity of freely diffusing DNA by direct measurement of fluctuations

(2013) X. Shi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biomechanics of DNA structures visualized by 4D electron microscopy

(2013) U. J. Lorenz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atomic structure and hierarchical assembly of a cross-  amyloid fibril

(2013) A. W. P. Fitzpatrick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atomic Force Microscopy under Controlled Conditions Reveals Structure of C-Terminal Region of α-Synuclein in Amyloid Fibrils

(2012) Kim K. M. Sweers et al.   ACS Nano

Diethylene glycol functionalized self-assembling peptide nanofibers and their hydrophobic drug delivery potential

(2012) Parisa Sadatmousavi et al.   Acta Biomaterialia

Computational and theoretical modeling of intermediate filament networks: Structure, mechanics and disease

(2012) Zhao Qin et al.   ACTA MECHANICA SINICA

Amyloid Directed Synthesis of Titanium Dioxide Nanowires and Their Applications in Hybrid Photovoltaic Devices

(2012) Sreenath Bolisetty et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Amyloid Inspired Self-Assembled Peptide Nanofibers

(2012) Goksu Cinar et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Self-Assembly of Ovalbumin into Amyloid and Non-Amyloid Fibrils

(2012) Cecile Lara et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Study of amyloid fibrils via atomic force microscopy

(2012) Jozef Adamcik et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE

Insulin Amyloid Fibrils: An Excellent Platform for Controlled Synthesis of Ultrathin Superlong Platinum Nanowires with High Electrocatalytic Activity

(2012) Longgai Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Deformation behavior and mechanical properties of amyloid protein nanowires

(2012) Max Solar et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Analytical and Numerical Methods for Capturing the Thermal Fluctuations of Semiflexible Polymers

(2012) Sander L. Poelert et al.   MACROMOLECULAR THEORY AND SIMULATIONS

Force–Fluctuation Relation of a Single DNA Molecule

(2012) Takeshi Baba et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Measurement of intrinsic properties of amyloid fibrils by the peak force QNM method

(2012) Jozef Adamcik et al.   Nanoscale

Biodegradable nanocomposites of amyloid fibrils and graphene with shape-memory and enzyme-sensing properties

(2012) Chaoxu Li et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Length Scale Dependence of DNA Mechanical Properties

(2012) Agnes Noy et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Nanoscale Strain-Hardening of Keratin Fibres

(2012) Patrick Fortier et al.   PLoS One

Extreme Bendability of DNA Less than 100 Base Pairs Long Revealed by Single-Molecule Cyclization

(2012) R. Vafabakhsh et al.   SCIENCE

Predicting the morphology of sickle red blood cells using coarse-grained models of intracellular aligned hemoglobin polymers

(2012) Huan Lei et al.   Soft Matter

Structural model for α-synuclein fibrils derived from high resolution imaging and nanomechanical studies using atomic force microscopy

(2012) Kim K. M. Sweers et al.   Soft Matter

Rational Molecular Design of Complementary Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogels

(2012) Stuart Kyle et al.   Advanced Healthcare Materials

Failure of Aβ(1-40) amyloid fibrils under tensile loading

(2011) Raffaella Paparcone et al.   BIOMATERIALS

Structural and Mechanical Properties of TTR105-115 Amyloid Fibrils from Compression Experiments

(2011) Filip Meersman et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Physical Properties of Polymorphic Yeast Prion Amyloid Fibers

(2011) Carlos E. Castro et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

New biocompatible thermo-reversible hydrogels from PNiPAM-decorated amyloid fibrils

(2011) Chaoxu Li et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Proteins Fibrils from a Polymer Physics Perspective

(2011) Jozef Adamcik et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Comparative analysis of nanomechanics of protein filaments under lateral loading

(2011) Max Solar et al.   Nanoscale

Nanomechanics of functional and pathological amyloid materials

(2011) Tuomas P. J. Knowles et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Challenges and opportunities for structural DNA nanotechnology

(2011) Andre V. Pinheiro et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Quantifying how DNA stretches, melts and changes twist under tension

(2011) Peter Gross et al.   Nature Physics

Constrained random-force model for weakly bending semiflexible polymers

(2011) Panayotis Benetatos et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Inhibiting, promoting, and preserving stability of functional proteinfibrils

(2011) Owen Griffith Jones et al.   Soft Matter

Bond energy effects on strength, cooperativity and robustness of molecular structures

(2011) C.-C. Chou et al.   Interface Focus

Nanomechanical properties of α-synuclein amyloid fibrils: a comparative study by nanoindentation, harmonic force microscopy, and Peakforce QNM

(2011) Kim Sweers et al.   Nanoscale Research Letters

Compressive deformation of ultralong amyloid fibrils

(2010) Raffaella Paparcone et al.   ACTA MECHANICA SINICA

Nanoscale Flexibility Parameters of Alzheimer Amyloid Fibrils Determined by Electron Cryo-Microscopy

(2010) Carsten Sachse et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Sickle Cell Biomechanics

(2010) Gilda A. Barabino et al.   Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Amyloid hydrogel derived from curly protein fibrils of α-synuclein

(2010) Ghibom Bhak et al.   BIOMATERIALS

The Microrheology of Sickle Hemoglobin Gels

(2010) Mikhail N. Zakharov et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Alzheimer's Aβ(1-40) Amyloid Fibrils Feature Size-Dependent Mechanical Properties

(2010) Zhiping Xu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Detection of Populations of Amyloid-Like Protofibrils with Different Physical Properties

(2010) Annalisa Relini et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Nanoporous protein matrix made of amyloid fibrils of β2-microglobulin

(2010) Minkoo Ahn et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

Nanomechanics of individual amyloid fibrils using atomic force microscopy

(2010) XingFei Zhou et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Failure of Alzheimer’s Aβ(1–40) amyloid nanofibrils under compressive loading

(2010) Raffaella Paparcone et al.   JOM

Surface Attachment of Protein Fibrils via Covalent Modification Strategies

(2010) Alexander K. Buell et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

A coarse-grain molecular dynamics model for sickle hemoglobin fibers

(2010) He Li et al.   Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

PEGylated Amyloid Peptide Nanocontainer Delivery and Release System

(2010) V. Castelletto et al.   LANGMUIR

Nanoconfinement controls stiffness, strength and mechanical toughness of β-sheet crystals in silk

(2010) Sinan Keten et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Nanostructured films from hierarchical self-assembly of amyloidogenic proteins

(2010) Tuomas P. J. Knowles et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Understanding amyloid aggregation by statistical analysis of atomic force microscopy images

(2010) Jozef Adamcik et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Fluctuations of a long, semiflexible polymer in a narrow channel

(2010) Theodore W. Burkhardt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Stretching weakly bending filaments with spontaneous curvature in two dimensions

(2010) Panayotis Benetatos et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Amyloid fibers provide structural integrity to Bacillus subtilis biofilms

(2010) D. Romero et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modelling semiflexible polymers: shape analysis, buckling instabilities, and force generation

(2010) Jan Kierfeld et al.   Soft Matter

Force and function: probing proteins with AFM-based force spectroscopy

(2009) Elias M Puchner et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Compressibility of insulin amyloid fibrils determined by X-ray diffraction in a diamond anvil cell

(2009) Filip Meersman et al.   HIGH PRESSURE RESEARCH

The Common Architecture of Cross-β Amyloid

(2009) Thomas R. Jahn et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Efficient Energy Transfer within Self-Assembling Peptide Fibers: A Route to Light-Harvesting Nanomaterials

(2009) Kevin J. Channon et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Self-assembling peptide nanofiber scaffold promotes the reconstruction of acutely injured brain

(2009) Jiasong Guo et al.   Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine

Formation and maintenance of Alzheimer's disease β-amyloid plaques in the absence of microglia

(2009) Stefan A Grathwohl et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Controlled release of functional proteins through designer self-assembling peptide nanofiber hydrogel scaffold

(2009) S. Koutsopoulos et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An Analytical Solution to the Kinetics of Breakable Filament Assembly

(2009) T. P. J. Knowles et al.   SCIENCE

Functional Amyloids As Natural Storage of Peptide Hormones in Pituitary Secretory Granules

(2009) S. K. Maji et al.   SCIENCE

Shear-induced structure and mechanics of β-lactoglobulin amyloid fibrils

(2009) Dave E. Dunstan et al.   Soft Matter

Buckling of semiflexible filaments under compression

(2009) J. R. Blundell et al.   Soft Matter

Integration of amyloid nanowires in organic solar cells

(2008) S. Barrau et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Self-Assembly and Hydrogelation of an Amyloid Peptide Fragment

(2008) Marta J. Krysmann et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Amyloid-like Fibrils in Elastin-Related Polypeptides: Structural Characterization and Elastic Properties

(2008) Loretta L. del Mercato et al.   BIOMACROMOLECULES

Ultrathin silver nanowires produced by amyloid biotemplating

(2008) Mantas Malisauskas et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS

Electrochemical Devices Made from Conducting Nanowire Networks Self-Assembled from Amyloid Fibrils and Alkoxysulfonate PEDOT

(2008) Mahiar Hamedi et al.   NANO LETTERS

AFM-based force spectroscopy measurements of mature amyloid fibrils of the peptide glucagon

(2008) Mingdong Dong et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Self-Assembling Peptide Nanofiber Scaffolds Accelerate Wound Healing

(2008) Aurore Schneider et al.   PLoS One

Assembling Materials with DNA as the Guide

(2008) F. A. Aldaye et al.   SCIENCE

Designer functionalized self-assembling peptide nanofiber scaffolds for growth, migration, and tubulogenesis of human umbilical vein endothelial cells

(2008) Xiumei Wang et al.   Soft Matter

Amyloid as a Depot for the Formulation of Long-Acting Drugs

(2008) Samir K Maji et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY