Polymeric materials produced from fossil fuels have been intimately linked to the
development of industrial activities in the 20th century and, consequently, to the …

Light is of essential importance to the universe and humankind. Light has been, and
continues to be, one of the most fundamental and indispensable elements to life and society …

Impacts of ultrasound pretreatment on the formation of soy protein fibrils, interaction of soy
protein fibrils and EGCG, rheological property and antioxidant activity of the complex, and …

When protein/peptides aggregate, they usually form the amyloid state consisting of cross β-
sheet structure built by repetitively stacked β-strands forming long fibrils. Amyloids are …

The aggregation of proteins into structures known as amyloids is observed in many
neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease. Amyloids are composed of …

There are several interrelated mechanisms involving iron, dopamine, and neuromelanin in
neurons. Neuromelanin accumulates during aging and is the catecholamine-derived …

Peptide-based supramolecular assemblies are a promising class of nanomaterials with
important biomedical applications, specifically in drug delivery and tissue regeneration …

Two complementary approaches were used in search of the intracellular targets of the toxic
PR poly-dipeptide encoded by the repeat sequences expanded in the C9orf72 form of …

For several decades scientists have speculated that the key to understanding age-related
neurodegenerative disorders may be found in the unusual biology of the prion diseases …

Protein folding involves a large number of steps and conformations in which the folding
protein samples different thermodynamic states characterized by local minima. Kinetically …