AFM-based single molecule techniques: unraveling the amyloid pathogenic species

FS Ruggeri, J Habchi, A Cerreta… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2016‏ - ingentaconnect.com
Background: A wide class of human diseases and neurodegenerative disorders, such as
Alzheimer's disease, is due to the failure of a specific peptide or protein to keep its native …

FiberApp: an open-source software for tracking and analyzing polymers, filaments, biomacromolecules, and fibrous objects

I Usov, R Mezzenga - Macromolecules, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Biological semiflexible polymers and filaments such as collagen, fibronectin, actin,
microtubules, coiled-coil proteins, DNA, siRNA, amyloid fibrils, etc., are ubiquitous in nature …

“Nano‐Fishnet” Structure Making Silk Fibers Tougher

R Liu, Q Deng, Z Yang, D Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Based on the combined technologies of atomic force microscopy, X‐ray
diffraction/scattering, Fourier transform infrared spectra analysis, etc., it is demonstrated that …

Stability of amyloid oligomers

WM Berhanu, UHE Hansmann - … in protein chemistry and structural biology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Molecular simulations are now commonly used to complement experimental techniques in
investigating amyloids and their role in human diseases. In this chapter, we will summarize …

Structural, Nanomechanical, and Computational Characterization of d,l-Cyclic Peptide Assemblies

DJ Rubin, S Amini, F Zhou, H Su, A Miserez, NS Joshi - ACS nano, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
The rigid geometry and tunable chemistry of d, l-cyclic peptides makes them an intriguing
building-block for the rational design of nano-and microscale hierarchically structured …

Nanomechanical properties of SSTSAA microcrystals are dominated by the inter-sheet packing

F Meersman, R Quesada-Cabrera… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Amyloid fibrils have been associated with human disease for many decades, but it has also
become apparent that they play a functional, non-disease-related role in eg bacteria and …

Ultra-confined controllable cyclic peptides as supramolecular biomaterials

MS Chorsi, W Linthicum, A Pozhidaeva, C Mundrane… - Nano Today, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The capacity to design molecules capable of orchestrated movements in response to
specific stimuli could yield functional biomaterials suitable for diverse innovative materials …

Micro-and nanoscale hierarchical structure of core–shell protein microgels

LR Volpatti, U Shimanovich, FS Ruggeri… - Journal of Materials …, 2016‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Protein nanofibrils were first discovered in the context of misfolding and neurodegenerative
diseases but have recently been found in naturally occurring functional materials including …

Amyloid-intercalated graphene oxide membranes for enhanced nanofiltration

AC Lin, F **e, R Chang, N Beaver, C Drewery… - Carbon Trends, 2021‏ - Elsevier
We report on fast pressure-driven nanofiltration of strong GO membranes intercalated by
protein amyloid fibrils. We investigate the effect of protein amyloid fibril loading on …

Quantitative measurement of the mechanical properties of human antibodies with sub-10-nm resolution in a liquid environment

A Voss, C Dietz, A Stocker, RW Stark - Nano research, 2015‏ - Springer
The nanomechanical properties of single human immunoglobulin G and M antibodies were
measured in a liquid environment using a fast force-volume technique with sub-10-nm …