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Amyloid-β Can Form Fractal Antenna-Like Networks Responsive to Electromagnetic Beating and Wireless Signaling

  • Komal Saxena
  • , Pushpendra Singh
  • , Parama Dey
  • , Marielle Aulikki Wälti
  • , Pathik Sahoo
  • , Subrata Ghosh
  • , Soami Daya Krishnanda
  • , Roland Riek
  • , Anirban Bandyopadhyay

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Abstract

Clathrin protein coats the deposits into vesicles, sorts and carries the cargo to the destination, thus, cleans the waste. The degraded product of the amyloid precursor protein Aβ and its aggregated fibrils are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Why Clathrin fails to arrest the rapid aggregation is debated. Here, we demonstrate that in contact with a hexagonal-close-packed organic substrate, the Aβ(1-42) fibrils form an electromagnetically responsive fractal superstructure. Using two independent experimental techniques with microwave and laser spectroscopy, we have discovered the electric pulse generating ability (i.e., beating/interference) of the Aβ-fractal networks that fine-tune the Clathrin-mediated disassembly by inducing step-by-step morphogenesis. A fractal antenna network has multiple communication modes; beating is essential to disassemble it. Rapid multi-scale synthesis of antenna-network only in the presence of a typical geometric shape is unprecedented. Our finding sheds light on how brain deposits could suddenly outsmart the natural brain cleansing and how we could bypass the rapid propagation of Alzheimer’s.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics - TEHI 2022
EditorsMufti Mahmud, Claudia Mendoza-Barrera, M. Shamim Kaiser, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Kanad Ray, Eduardo Lugo
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages323-344
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)9789819919154
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics, TEHI 2022 - Puebla, Mexico
Duration: Dec 7 2022Dec 9 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Networks and Systems
Volume675 LNNS
ISSN (Print)2367-3370
ISSN (Electronic)2367-3389

Conference

Conference2nd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Health Informatics, TEHI 2022
Country/TerritoryMexico
CityPuebla
Period12/7/2212/9/22

Keywords

  • Alzheimer's
  • Amyloid Beta
  • CHC
  • Clathrin heavy chain
  • Clathrin light chain
  • CLC
  • Electromagnetic treatment
  • Fabry Perot interferometry
  • Fractal
  • Microwave

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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