In recent years, amyloids have attracted a lot of attention due to their involvement in degenerative disease, as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. Functional amyloids can stabilize bacterial biofilms, serve as scaffolding for melanin formation, store peptide hormones, and promote interactions among proteins in subcellular condensates. Moreover, non-human functional amyloids may play a role in human disease by facilitating bacterial pathogenicity and promoting the aggregation of human amyloidogenic proteins.

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