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- Title
Host defense amyloids: Biosensors of the immune system?
- Authors
Myers, Caitlyn; Cornwall, Gail A.
- Abstract
There is considerable evidence showing that highly ordered aggregate structures known as amyloids carry out essential biological roles in species ranging from bacteria to humans. Indeed, many antimicrobial peptides/proteins form amyloids to carry out their host defense functions and many amyloids are antimicrobial. The similarity of host defense amyloids from bacterial biofilms to the mammalian epididymal amyloid matrix implies highly conserved host defense structures/functions. With an emphasis on the epididymal amyloid matrix, here we review the common properties of host defense amyloids including unique traits that would allow them to function as powerful biosensors of the immune system.
- Subjects
AMYLOID; IMMUNE system; BIOSENSORS; ANTIMICROBIAL peptides; COMMONS
- Publication
Andrology, 2024, Vol 12, Issue 5, p973
- ISSN
2047-2919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/andr.13555