Self-assembly of amphiphilic dendritic dipeptides into helical pores

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7001, 2004, Pages 764-768

  Percec, Virgil ^a   Dulcey, Andrés E ^a   Balagurusamy, Venkatachalapathy S K ^a   Miura, Yoshiko ^a   Smidrkal, Jan ^a   Peterca, Mihai ^a   Hummelin, Sami ^a   Edlund, Ulrica ^a   Hudson, Steven D ^b   Heiney, Paul A ^a   Duan, Hu ^b   Magonev, Sergei N ^c   Vinogradov, Sergei A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Digital Instruments   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COATING TECHNIQUES; DENDRIMERS; POROSITY; SELF ASSEMBLY;

HELICAL PORES; STOCHASTIC SENSING;

PROTEINS;

AMPHOPHILE; DENDRIMER; DIPEPTIDE; BIOPOLYMER; PROTON;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; SOLID STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOPOLYMERS; CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIPEPTIDES; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; POROSITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTONS; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 4043072677     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02770     Document Type: Article

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