Probing the importance of lateral hydrophobic association in self-assembling peptide hydrogelators

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 162-169

  Rajagopal, Karthikan ^a   Ozbas, Bulent ^a   Pochan, Darrin J ^a   Schneider, Joel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Hydrogel; Peptide; Self assembly; Tissue engineering; Viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

NANOPARTICLE; PEPTIDE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HYDROGEL; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR PROBE; PROTEIN FOLDING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HYDROGELS; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; KINETICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOSTRUCTURES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VALINE;

EID: 29944436353     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-005-0017-7     Document Type: Article

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