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Amyloid as a natural product
被引:98
作者:
Kelly, JW
Balch, WE
机构:
[1] Scripps Res Inst, Dept Chem, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[2] Scripps Res Inst, Skaggs Inst Chem Biol, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[3] Scripps Res Inst, Dept Cell Biol, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[4] Scripps Res Inst, Inst Childhood & Neglected Dis, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
关键词:
MELANOSOME;
D O I:
10.1083/jcb.200304074
中图分类号:
Q2 [细胞生物学];
学科分类号:
071009 ;
090102 ;
摘要:
Amyloid fibrils, such as those found in Alzheimer's and the gelsolin amyloid diseases, result from the misassembly of peptides produced by either normal or aberrant intracellular proteolytic processing. A paper in this issue by Marks and colleagues (Berson et al., 2003) demonstrates that intra-melanosome fibrils are formed through normal biological proteolytic processing of an integral membrane protein. The resulting peptide fragment assembles into fibrils promoting the formation of melanin pigment granules. These results, along with the observation that amyloid fibril formation by bacteria is highly orchestrated, suggest that fibril formation is an evolutionary conserved biological pathway used to generate natural product nanostructures.
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页码:461 / 462
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