The representatives of the archamoebian genus Pelomyxa are amoeboid anaerobic protists that inhabit fresh-water anoxic sediments, and most of them are usually multinucleate. The cytoplasm of these unicellular organisms is highly complicated and contains numerous vacuoles of different types, as well as a wide range of prokaryotic endocytobionts, agglomerations of glycogen, lipids, etc. Among the great variety of cytoplasmic structures in P.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe transition of β-barrel proteins from a soluble to an amyloid form is biologically significant in some cases but may lead to functional activity loss. In particular, odorant-binding proteins' (OBPs) fibrils are unable to bind odorant molecules potentially contributing to olfactory dysfunction. As shown previously, OBPs' fibrillogenesis is initiated by uncoupling of protein C-terminal fragment from the β-barrel and exposing amyloidogenic sites.
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