Engineering the morphology of a self-assembling protein fibre

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 329-332

  Ryadnov, Maxim G ^a   Woolfson, Derek N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MIXING; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MORPHOLOGY; POLYPEPTIDES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SURFACES; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

KINKING; NONLINEAR PEPTIDES; PROTOFIBRILS;

PROTEINS;

PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

EID: 0037844737     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat885     Document Type: Letter

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