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Mårten Hammar
Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis
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Citations - 1161
Mårten Hammar is an academic researcher from Washington University in St. Louis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Curli assembly. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 1046 citations.
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Role of Escherichia coli Curli Operons in Directing Amyloid Fiber Formation
Matthew George Chapman,Lloyd S. Robinson,Jerome S. Pinkner,Robyn Roth,John E. Heuser,Mårten Hammar,Staffan Normark,Scott J. Hultgren +7 more
TL;DR: Biochemical, biophysical, and imaging analyses revealed that fibers produced by Escherichia coli called curli were amyloid, and curli biogenesis was dependent on the nucleation-precipitation machinery requiring the CsgE and CsgF chaperone-like and nucleator proteins, respectively.