An Amyloid Organelle: Solid State NMR Evidence for Cross-Beta Assembly of Gas Vesicles

Functional amyloids have been identified in a wide range of organisms, taking on a variety of biological roles and being controlled by remarkable mechanisms of directed assembly. Here, we report that amyloid fibrils constitute the ribs of the buoyancy organelles of Anabaena flos-aquae. The walls of...

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Main Authors: Bayro, Marvin J. (Contributor), Daviso, Eugenio (Contributor), Belenky, Marina (Author), Griffin, Robert Guy (Contributor), Herzfeld, Judith (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry (Contributor), Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2012-11-08T17:18:46Z.
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