The design of spiraling cross-α amyloid-like structures reveals fascinating supermolecular fibrils of diverse compactness and stability. The small sequence variations governing cross-α self-assembly properties concur with amyloids being basic building blocks of life and natural targets for microbial structural mimicry.
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Landau, M. Mimicking cross-α amyloids. Nat Chem Biol 14, 833–834 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-018-0118-0
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