Tailocins are recurrent contaminants in ex vivo amyloid extraction
Jan-Hannes Schäfer, Robert T. O’Neill, Zi Gao, Danielle Ann Grotjahn, Evan T. Powers, Jeffery W. Kelly
The paper identifies tailocins as contaminants in ex vivo amyloid preparations and proposes strategies to detect and avoid them in cryo-EM.
bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics