New insight into the molecular control of bacterial functional amyloids

The Bacterial Curli System Possesses a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of Amyloid Formation

(2015) Margery L. Evans et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Lipid vesicles trigger α-synuclein aggregation by stimulating primary nucleation

(2015) Céline Galvagnion et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

A molecular chaperone breaks the catalytic cycle that generates toxic Aβ oligomers

(2015) Samuel I A Cohen et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A molecular chaperone breaks the catalytic cycle that generates toxic Aβ oligomers

(2015) Samuel I A Cohen et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Toll-Like Receptor 2 and NLRP3 Cooperate To Recognize a Functional Bacterial Amyloid, Curli

(2014) Glenn J. Rapsinski et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Secretion and functional display of fusion proteins through the curli biogenesis pathway

(2014) Nani Van Gerven et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Structural and mechanistic insights into the bacterial amyloid secretion channel CsgG

(2014) Parveen Goyal et al.   NATURE

Synthesis and patterning of tunable multiscale materials with engineered cells

(2014) Allen Y. Chen et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Strong underwater adhesives made by self-assembling multi-protein nanofibres

(2014) Chao Zhong et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Structure of the nonameric bacterial amyloid secretion channel

(2014) Baohua Cao et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Programmable biofilm-based materials from engineered curli nanofibres

(2014) Peter Q. Nguyen et al.   Nature Communications

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of the curli transporter CsgG

(2013) Parveen Goyal et al.   Acta Crystallographica Section F-Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications

Inhibiting toxic aggregation of amyloidogenic proteins: A therapeutic strategy for protein misfolding diseases

(2013) Biao Cheng et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Small Regulatory RNAs in the Control of Motility and Biofilm Formation in E. coli and Salmonella

(2013) Franziska Mika et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Unfoldase-mediated protein translocation through an α-hemolysin nanopore

(2013) Jeff Nivala et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

A bacterial export system for generating extracellular amyloid aggregates

(2013) Viknesh Sivanathan et al.   Nature Protocols

Antitoxin MqsA Represses Curli Formation Through the Master Biofilm Regulator CsgD

(2013) Valerie W. C. Soo et al.   Scientific Reports

Curli Functional Amyloid Systems Are Phylogenetically Widespread and Display Large Diversity in Operon and Protein Structure

(2012) Morten S. Dueholm et al.   PLoS One

E. coli chaperones DnaK, Hsp33 and Spy inhibit bacterial functional amyloid assembly

(2012) Margery L. Evans et al.   Prion

CsgE is a curli secretion specificity factor that prevents amyloid fibre aggregation

(2011) Ashley A. Nenninger et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Crystal structure of the octameric pore of staphylococcal  -hemolysin reveals the  -barrel pore formation mechanism by two components

(2011) K. Yamashita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Atomic Resolution Insights into Curli Fiber Biogenesis

(2011) Jonathan D. Taylor et al.   STRUCTURE

Diversity, biogenesis and function of microbial amyloids

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

Structure and assembly of pore-forming proteins

(2010) Ioan Iacovache et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Functional amyloid in Pseudomonas

(2010) Morten S. Dueholm et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Unphosphorylated CsgD controls biofilm formation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

(2010) Katherina Zakikhany et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

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

OCAM: A new tool for studying the oligomeric diversity of MscL channels

(2010) Chris S. Gandhi et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Widespread Abundance of Functional Bacterial Amyloid in Mycolata and Other Gram-Positive Bacteria

(2009) P. B. Jordal et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Responses to Amyloids of Microbial and Host Origin Are Mediated through Toll-like Receptor 2

(2009) Çagla Tükel et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

The Functional Curli Amyloid Is Not Based on In-register Parallel β-Sheet Structure

(2009) Frank Shewmaker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Localized and efficient curli nucleation requires the chaperone-like amyloid assembly protein CsgF

(2009) Ashley A. Nenninger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fiber Formation across the Bacterial Outer Membrane by the Chaperone/Usher Pathway

(2008) Han Remaut et al.   CELL

Spatial Clustering of the Curlin Secretion Lipoprotein Requires Curli Fiber Assembly

(2008) E. A. Epstein et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY