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Professor Louise Serpell - What's in a name? Amyloid, Amyloid-beta, Beta Amyloid, Amy-Lloyd
Professor Louise Serpell narrates her blog written for Dementia Researcher.
Amyloid is one of the most used words in Alzheimer's research, and Louise thinks we have got into the habit of using it too loosely.
Amyloid is not a single thing. It is a structure, a way that many different proteins fold and assemble into fibrils, and the officially recognised list of amyloid precursor proteins now runs to 42 and keeps growing. Tau forms amyloid. Insulin can. So can the antibodies that deposit in the heart and skin. Bacteria even build functional amyloid to stick themselves to surfaces. So when…
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