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Amyloid fibrils are filamentous and insoluble forms of peptides or proteins. Proline has extensive been considered to be irreconcilable with the cross-[beta] structural device of amyloid fibrils. On the principle of solid-state NMR spectroscopy data, we tender a structural fabricate of an in-register similar [beta] contour sheet for the amyloid fibrils formed from a person prion protein fragment, huPrP127-47. We bear developed a homely solid-state NMR spectroscopy dexterousness to identify solvent-protected stability amide protons in a H/D the Bourse experiment without disaggregating the amyloid fibrils, from which we find out that proline residuum P137 does not disrupt the [beta]-sheet structure from G127 to G142. We suggest that the resultant curl at P137 generates a misconstrue between adjacent peptide strands to keep hydrogen bonding in the [beta]-sheet regions flanking the P137 surplus. Although proline can be okay integrated into the cross-[beta] design of amyloid fibrils, the kink formed at the position of the proline rest drive considerably enfeeble the hydrogen bonding internuncio the neighboring strands, unusually when the deviation locality is near the inner zone of a [beta] area <<>>