Modeling amyloids in bacteria
Villar Piqué, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Bioquímica i de Biologia Molecular)
Ventura, Salvador (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina "Vicent Villar Palasí")
Date: |
2012 |
Abstract: |
An increasing number of proteins are being shown to assemble into amyloid structures, self-seeding fibrillar aggregates that may lead to pathological states or play essential biological functions in organisms. Bacterial cell factories have raised as privileged model systems to understand the mechanisms behind amyloid assembly and the cellular fitness cost associated to the formation of these aggregates. In the near future, these bacterial systems will allow implementing high-throughput screening approaches to identify effective modulators of amyloid aggregation. |
Grants: |
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación BFU2010-14901 Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca 2009/SGR-760
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Rights: |
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Language: |
Anglès |
Document: |
Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada |
Subject: |
Aggregation ;
Amyloids ;
Bacteria |
Published in: |
Microbial cell factories, Vol. 11 (2012) , art. 166, ISSN 1475-2859 |
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-11-166
PMID: 23272903
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