Designed peptides as nanomolar cross-amyloid inhibitors acting via supramolecular nanofiber co-assembly

Autor: Karin Taş, Beatrice Dalla Volta, Christina Lindner, Omar El Bounkari, Kathleen Hille, Yuan Tian, Xènia Puig-Bosch, Markus Ballmann, Simon Hornung, Martin Ortner, Sophia Prem, Laura Meier, Gerhard Rammes, Martin Haslbeck, Christian Weber, Remco T. A. Megens, Jürgen Bernhagen, Aphrodite Kapurniotu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-22 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32688-0
Popis: Amyloid self-assembly is linked to type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Here the authors designed constrained peptides which are nanomolar amyloid inhibitors of the key polypeptides IAPP and Aβ42 and act via supramolecular nanofiber co-assembly.
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