Stimuli-responsive polypeptide vesicles by conformation-specific assembly

Nature Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 244-248

  Bellomo, Enrico G ^a   Wyrsta, Michael D ^a   Pakstis, Lisa ^b   Pochan, Darrin J ^b   Deming, Timothy J ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Barbara   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONFORMATIONS; COPOLYMERS; DRUG INFUSION; ELECTRIC CHARGE; HYDROPHILICITY; HYDROPHOBICITY; POLYELECTROLYTES; PROTEINS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); VIRUSES; WATER;

POLYPEPTIDE VESICLES; VIRUS CAPSIDS;

POLYPEPTIDES;

LIPID; PEPTIDE; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; PH; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; STEREOISOMERISM;

HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LIPIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PEPTIDES; POLYMERS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 1842781842     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1093     Document Type: Article

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