Artificial spider silk is an attractive material for many technical applications since it is a
biobased fiber that can be produced under ambient conditions but still outcompetes …

Prions, or infectious proteins, represent a major frontier in the study of infectious agents. The
prions responsible for mammalian transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are …

Prions are fatal neurodegenerative transmissible agents causing several incurable illnesses
in humans and animals. Prion diseases are caused by the structural conversion of the …

The temperature-induced α-helix to β-sheet transition in long-chain poly-l-lysine (PLL),
accompanied by the gauche-to-trans isomerization of CH 2 groups in the hydrocarbon side …

Misfolding and aggregation of the prion protein is responsible for multiple
neurodegenerative diseases. Works from several laboratories on folding of both the WT and …

Experimental X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, dual polarization interferometry, etc.
are indeed very powerful tools to determine the 3-Dimensional structure of a protein …

Recently, several short peptides have been shown to self-assemble into amyloid fibrils with
generic cross-β spines, so-called steric zippers, suggesting common underlying structural …

Studies conducted over the past few decades have demonstrated that rabbits are immune to
prion diseases (also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)). Unlike …

Prion diseases, traditionally referred to as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are
invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases that affect a wide variety of …

Prion diseases are associated with the misfolding of the prion protein (PrP) from its normal
cellular form (Pr PC) to its infectious scrapie form (Pr PS c). Post‐translational modifications …