Functional amyloid: widespread in Nature, diverse in purpose

Dragline, Egg Stalk and Byssus: A Comparison of Outstanding Protein Fibers and Their Potential for Developing New Materials

(2013) Eileen S. Lintz et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Amyloids and Yeast Prion Biology

(2013) Reed B. Wickner et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial amyloids – functions and interactions within the host

(2013) Kelly Schwartz et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

PMEL: a pigment cell-specific model for functional amyloid formation

(2013) Brenda Watt et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

A stereochemical switch in the aDrs model system, a candidate for a functional amyloid

(2012) Ruth Gößler-Schöfberger et al.   ARCHIVES OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS

Exploiting amyloid: how and why bacteria use cross-β fibrils

(2012) Elizabeth B. Sawyer et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

The RIP1/RIP3 Necrosome Forms a Functional Amyloid Signaling Complex Required for Programmed Necrosis

(2012) Jixi Li et al.   CELL

Functional amyloid formation by Streptococcus mutans

(2012) M. W. Oli et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Nonpathological Extracellular Amyloid Is Present during Normal Epididymal Sperm Maturation

(2012) Sandra Whelly et al.   PLoS One

Rubber Elongation Factor (REF), a Major Allergen Component in Hevea brasiliensis Latex Has Amyloid Properties

(2012) Karine Berthelot et al.   PLoS One

Microbial manipulation of the amyloid fold

(2012) William H. DePas et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Necroptosis: An emerging form of programmed cell death

(2011) Wei Wu et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN ONCOLOGY HEMATOLOGY

Surface Hydrophobicity of Culture and Water Biofilm of Penicillium spp.

(2011) Virginia Siqueira et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Structural Insights into Functional and Pathological Amyloid

(2011) Frank Shewmaker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Passive water control at the surface of a superhydrophobic lichen

(2011) Christopher A. E. Hamlett et al.   PLANTA

Diversity, biogenesis and function of microbial amyloids

(2011) Luz P. Blanco et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Functional amyloid

(2010) Daniel Otzen   Prion

The Filament-specific Rep1-1 Repellent of the PhytopathogenUstilago maydisForms Functional Surface-active Amyloid-like Fibrils

(2009) Wieke R. Teertstra et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Fifty years later: The sequence, structure and function of lacewing cross-beta silk

(2009) Sarah Weisman et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein 2 is unstructured and forms amyloid-like fibrils

(2009) Christopher G. Adda et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

Surface hydrophobin prevents immune recognition of airborne fungal spores

(2009) Vishukumar Aimanianda et al.   NATURE

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

(2009) S. K. Maji et al.   SCIENCE

Function and Redundancy of the Chaplin Cell Surface Proteins in Aerial Hypha Formation, Rodlet Assembly, and Viability in Streptomyces coelicolor

(2008) C. Di Berardo et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Electron tomography of early melanosomes: Implications for melanogenesis and the generation of fibrillar amyloid sheets

(2008) I. Hurbain et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural analysis of hydrophobins

(2007) Margaret Sunde et al.   MICRON