Nanoparticle formation of self-assembling two-α-helix peptide induced by heme-binding

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 141-144

  Obataya, Ikuo ^a   Sakamoto, Seiji ^a   Ueno, Akihiko ^a   Mihara, Hisakazu ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

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11. -1. However, formation of nanoparticles was not observed by DLS measurements and TEM observation.