Exploring the temperature-pressure configurational landscape of biomolecules: From lipid membranes to proteins

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1827, 2005, Pages 537-563

  Winter, R ^a   Dzwolak, W ^b   Wolynes, P G ^c,d   Dobson, C M ^e   Saykally, R J ^f  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS   (Poland)

^c Department of Chemistry ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloidogenesis; High pressure; Lipid mesophases; Model biomembranes; Protein aggregation; Protein folding

Indexed keywords

EID: 13144290153     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2004.1507     Document Type: Article

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