The triphenylmethane dye brilliant blue G is only moderately effective at inhibiting amyloid formation by human amylin or at disaggregating amylin amyloid fibrils, but interferes with amyloid assays; Implications for inhibitor design

• Rehana Akter,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

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• Alexander Zhyvoloup,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom

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• Bingqian Zheng,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

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• Surita R. Bhatia,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America

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• Daniel P. Raleigh

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: d.raleigh@ucl.ac.uk, daniel.raleigh@stonybrook.edu

  Affiliations Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States of America, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3248-7493

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