Non-disease and Functional Amyloids
- Native amyloids in organisms
- Curli E. coli Protein (curlin)
- Chaplins from Streptomyces coelicolor
- Podospora Anserina Prion Het-s
- Malarial coat protein
- Spider silk (some but not all spiders)
- Mammalian melanosomes (pMel)
- Tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA), a hemodynamic factor
- ApCPEB protein and its homologues with a glutamine rich domain
- Proteins and peptides engineered to make amyloid which display specific properties, such as ligands that target cell surface receptors
- Several yeast prions are based on an infectious amyloid, e.g. (Sup35p); (Ure2p); (Rnq1p); (Swi1p) and (Cyc8p)
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