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Amyloid peptides with antimicrobial and/or microbial agglutination activity

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Microbe (including bacteria, fungi, and virus) infection in brains is associated with amyloid fibril deposit and neurodegeneration. Increasing findings suggest that amyloid proteins, like Abeta (Aβ), are important innate immune effectors in preventing infections. In some previous studies, amyloid peptides have been linked to antimicrobial peptides due to their common mechanisms in membrane-disruption ability, while the other mechanisms of bactericidal protein aggregation and protein function knockdown are less discussed. Besides, another important function of amyloid peptides in pathogen agglutination is rarely illustrated. In this review, we summarized and divided the different roles and mechanisms of amyloid peptides against microbes in antimicrobial activity and microbe agglutination activity. Besides, the range of amyloids’ antimicrobial spectrum, the effectiveness of amyloid peptide states (monomers, oligomers, and fibrils), and cytotoxicity are discussed. The good properties of amyloid peptides against microbes might provide implications for the development of novel antimicrobial drug.

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• Antimicrobial and/or microbial agglutination is a characteristic of amyloid peptides.

• Various mechanisms of amyloid peptides against microbes are discovered recently.

• Amyloid peptides might be developed into novel antimicrobial drugs.

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  3. Department of Preventive Dentistry, Hospital of Stomatology, Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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Chen, D., Liu, X., Chen, Y. et al. Amyloid peptides with antimicrobial and/or microbial agglutination activity. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 106, 7711–7720 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-022-12246-w

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