The sheaths of methanospirillum are made of a new type of amyloid protein

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• who: Daniel Erik Otzen and Morten Simonsen Dueholm from the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, and, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark have published the research: The Sheaths of Methanospirillum Are Made of a New Type of Amyloid Protein, in the Journal: Microorganisms belonging to the methanogenic genera Methanosaeta and Methanospirillum can either occur as single cells (Southam et_al, 1990) or as multicellular filaments enclosed within sheath structures where individual cells are separated by spacer plugs (Shaw et_al, 1985; Firtel et_al, 1993). The major sheath protein MspA has . . .
  

   

  

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