Food amyloid fibrils are safe nutrition ingredients based on in-vitro and in-vivo assessment

D Xu, J Zhou, WL Soon, I Kutzli, A Molière… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Food protein amyloid fibrils have superior technological, nutritional, sensorial, and physical
properties compared to native monomers, but there is as yet insufficient understanding of …

Food protein amyloid fibrils: Origin, structure, formation, characterization, applications and health implications

Y Cao, R Mezzenga - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
Amyloid fibrils have traditionally been considered only as pathological aggregates in human
neurodegenerative diseases, but it is increasingly becoming clear that the propensity to form …

Evaluation of protease resistance and toxicity of amyloid-like food fibrils from whey, soy, kidney bean, and egg white

M Lassé, D Ulluwishewa, J Healy, D Thompson… - Food Chemistry, 2016 - Elsevier
The structural properties of amyloid fibrils combined with their highly functional surface
chemistry make them an attractive new food ingredient, for example as highly effective …

Rational design of amyloid‐like fibrillary structures for tailoring food protein techno‐functionality and their potential health implications

KJA Jansens, I Rombouts, C Grootaert… - … Reviews in Food …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To control and enhance protein functionality is a major challenge for food scientists. In this
context, research on food protein fibril formation, especially amyloid fibril formation, holds …

Food protein-derived amyloids do not accelerate amyloid β aggregation

MM Rahman, RS Pires, A Herneke, V Gowda… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The deposition of proteins in the form of amyloid fibrils is closely associated with several
serious diseases. The events that trigger the conversion from soluble functional proteins into …

Processing induced changes in food proteins: amyloid formation during boiling of hen egg white

M Monge-Morera, MA Lambrecht, LJ Deleu… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Amyloid fibrils (AFs) are highly ordered protein nanofibers composed of cross β-structure
that occur in nature, but that also accumulate in age-related diseases. Amyloid propensity is …

Conditions governing food protein amyloid fibril formation. Part II: Milk and legume proteins

MA Lambrecht, KJA Jansens… - … reviews in food …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors impact amyloid formation of food proteins. We here review
the impact of various conditions and food constituents on amyloid fibrillation of milk and …

Conditions governing food protein amyloid fibril formation—Part I: Egg and cereal proteins

KJA Jansens, MA Lambrecht… - … reviews in food …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conditions including heating mode, time, temperature, pH, moisture and protein
concentration, shear, and the presence of alcohols, chaotropic/reducing agents, enzymes …

Formation of amyloid-like fibrils by ovalbumin and related proteins under conditions relevant to food processing

FG Pearce, SH Mackintosh… - Journal of Agricultural and …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Protein aggregation is important in food processing, and this work investigated the
aggregation of food proteins as a source of amyloid fibrils for use in bionanotechnology …

Why are functional amyloids non-toxic in humans?

MP Jackson, EW Hewitt - Biomolecules, 2017 - mdpi.com
Amyloids were first identified in association with amyloidoses, human diseases in which
proteins and peptides misfold into amyloid fibrils. Subsequent studies have identified an …