Responsive gels formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of peptides into polymeric β-sheet tapes

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6622, 1997, Pages 259-262

  Aggeli, A ^a   Bell, M ^a   Boden, N ^a   Keen, J N ^a   Knowles, P F ^a   McLeish, T C B ^a   Pitkeathly, M ^b   Radford, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIGOPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; GEL; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; VISCOELASTICITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GELS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RHEOLOGY; SOLVENTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030934379     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386259a0     Document Type: Article

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