Patent ID: 9550810
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B82Y,C07K

Claim:
1. An electroconducting nanowire, comprising an amyloid fibre which results from a self-assembling of first peptides comprising a prion domain or a derivative of the prion domain, the derivative being capable of forming amyloid fibres, each first peptide comprising the following sequence of amino acids: or a sequence of amino acids having at least 75% identity with SEQ ID NO: 8, the amyloid fibre being linked by covalent bonds to second peptides, the second peptides being electron transporting peptides, each electron transporting peptide comprising amino acids bound to one or more atoms of iron and comprising a sequence of amino-acids of a protein with an iron-sulphur centre, or a sequence of amino-acids having at least 75% identity with the sequence of amino-acids of the protein with the iron-sulphur centre, the protein with the iron-sulphur centre being a rubredoxine, a ferredoxin or a hydrogenase.