Role of Escherichia coli Curli Operons in Directing Amyloid Fiber Formation

By M. Chapman, Lloyd S. Robinson, J. Pinkner, Robyn Roth, J. Heuser, M. Hammar, S. Normark, S. Hultgren. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Genetics, Molecular Biology, Physiology

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• Neuroinflammation as a Common Feature of Neurodegenerative Disorders (2019, background): “SPs are extracellular deposits and correspond to deposition of Aβ peptides, derived from the amyloid precursor protein (AβPP) (Chapman et al., 2002).”
• Insights into Cronobacter sakazakii Biofilm Formation and Control Strategies in the Food Industry (2020, background): “Together with cellulose, curli fimbriae form a honeycomb-like structure that facilitates the establishment of biofilms [61].”
• Understanding RAGE, the receptor for advanced glycation end products (2005, background): “responses, RAGE also interacts with surface molecules on bacteria [30], prions [31], and leukocytes [32].”
• Structural and functional characteristics of bacterial biofilms (2010, background): “The curli�shaped protru� sions are thin flexible fibers (4–7 nm) of amyloid nature [ 20 ].”
• Functional Amyloid Formation within Mammalian Tissue (2005, background): “coli and Salmonella extracellular curli fibers [33], extracellular spider silk fibers [34], Sup35 amyloid in yeast [35], and, potentially, CPEB prions [36].”
• Amyloid fibers provide structural integrity to Bacillus subtilis biofilms (2010, methodology): “coli biofilms (10) was adapted for the growth of B.”
• Gut Microbiota is Altered in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (2018, neutral): “Additionally, a large amount of bacteria in human intestine could generate amyloid peptides [41, 42].”
• Functional amyloid--from bacteria to humans. (2007, methodology): “employ extracellular amyloid, known as curli, to help create a proteinaceous matrix that enables surface adhesion and colony formation [ 13 ,24,25].”
• Transneuronal Propagation of Pathologic α-Synuclein from the Gut to the Brain Models Parkinson's Disease. (2019, background): “Recent studies on the gut microbiome suggested that short-chain fatty acids and extracellular fibers, such as curli, produced from microbes in the gastrointestinal tract could affect a-syn aggregation and motor dysfunction (Chapman et al., 2002; Sampson et al., 2016).”