Kanchan Garai
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Email : kanchan at tifrh dot res dot in
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Email : kanchan at tifrh dot res dot in
Phone : +91 40 2020 3076
Regulation of amyloid aggregation in human diseases and bacterial biofilms
Amyloids: Many proteins and peptides spontaneously self-assemble to form fibrillar structures known as amyloids. Unlike the monomeric proteins the amyloids are highly stable being extremely resistant to thermal or chemical denaturation. I am particularly interested in two distinct kinds of amyloids i) those disrupt cellular functions such as fibrils of amyloid-β which causes Alzheimer’s disease and ii) those engender functions such as curli fibers which contribute to the formation of bacterial biofilms.
Figure 1 Image of amyloid-beta1-42 fibrils using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) in my lab at TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Hyderabad