Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Designed peptides as nanomolar cross-amyloid inhibitors acting via supramolecular nanofiber co-assembly

  • Karin Taş,
  • Beatrice Dalla Volta,
  • Christina Lindner,
  • Omar El Bounkari,
  • Kathleen Hille,
  • Yuan Tian,
  • Xènia Puig-Bosch,
  • Markus Ballmann,
  • Simon Hornung,
  • Martin Ortner,
  • Sophia Prem,
  • Laura Meier,
  • Gerhard Rammes,
  • Martin Haslbeck,
  • Christian Weber,
  • Remco T. A. Megens,
  • Jürgen Bernhagen,
  • Aphrodite Kapurniotu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32688-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Amyloid self-assembly is linked to type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Here the authors designed constrained peptides which are nanomolar amyloid inhibitors of the key polypeptides IAPP and Aβ42 and act via supramolecular nanofiber co-assembly.