Cross-Seeding Enables Repurposing of Aurein Antimicrobial Peptide as a Promoter of Human Islet Amyloid Polypeptide (hIAPP) Yijing Tang, Dong Zhang, Xiong Gong and Jie Zheng Abstract Since hIAPP (human islet amyloid polypeptide) aggregation and microbial infection are recognized as significant risk factors that contribute to the pathogenesis of type II diabetes (T2D), targeting these catastrophic processes simultaneously may have a greater impact on the prevention and treatment of T2D.