Abstract
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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Created | 22 years, 3 months ago (May 12, 2003, 3:38 p.m.) |
Deposited | 2 years, 1 month ago (July 22, 2023, 11:41 a.m.) |
Indexed | 1 year ago (Aug. 12, 2024, 7:18 a.m.) |
Issued | 22 years, 3 months ago (May 12, 2003) |
Published | 22 years, 3 months ago (May 12, 2003) |
Published Online | 22 years, 3 months ago (May 12, 2003) |
Published Print | 22 years, 3 months ago (May 12, 2003) |
@article{Kelly_2003, title={Amyloid as a natural product}, volume={161}, ISSN={0021-9525}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200304074}, DOI={10.1083/jcb.200304074}, number={3}, journal={The Journal of Cell Biology}, publisher={Rockefeller University Press}, author={Kelly, Jeffery W. and Balch, William E.}, year={2003}, month=may, pages={461–462} }