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SUBMITTER: Pulawski W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3324686 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Applied biochemistry and biotechnology 20120219 7
The common view of amyloids and prion proteins is that they are associated with many currently incurable diseases and present a great danger to an organism. This danger comes from the fact that not only prion proteins, but also the infectious form(s) of amyloids, as it has been shown recently, are able to transmit the disease. On the other hand, organisms take advantage of the strength and durability of specific forms of amyloids. Such forms do not spread any disease. Also, in nanotechnology the ...[more]