The Functional Fold (eBook, PDF)

Amyloid Structures in Nature
Redaktion: Jarvis, Suzi; Mostaert, Anika

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together a wide variety of examples of functional amyloid in a single volume, this book explores the importance of amyloid fibrils in fungi, bacteria, algae, invertebrate, and vertebrate animals for providing environmental protection, structural integrity, and regulating biochemical processes. It highlights many of the extraordinary exampl

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789814267625
• Artikelnr.: 38389145

Autorenporträt

Suzi Jarvis, Anika Mostaert

Inhaltsangabe

1. The World of Functional Amyloid
2. Hagfish Slime Threads
3. Fungal Fibrils: Application of the Amyloid Polymer Structure by Fungi
4. Silkmoth Chorion: A Natural Protective Amyloid
5. Spider Silk
6. Yeast Prions: Their Assembly into Protein Fibrils and the Role of Assembly Modulators
7. Curli Extracellular Matrix
8. Amyloid-Based Natural Adhesives and Cements
9. Mammalian Functional Amyloid
10. Unfolding the Future