Structure and function of nanoparticle-protein conjugates

Biomedical Materials

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Aubin Tam, M E ^a   Hamad Schifferli, K ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DYNAMICS; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE; LABELING; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STOICHIOMETRY;

COVALENT LINKING; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; NANOPARTICLE MATERIAL; NANOPARTICLE SIZES; NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS; PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN CONJUGATES; PROTEIN ORIENTATION; PROTEIN RESIDUES; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; SITE-SPECIFIC;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

LIGAND; NANOPARTICLE; BIOMATERIAL; PROTEIN;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONJUGATION; COVALENT BOND; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PURIFICATION; SIMULATION; STOICHIOMETRY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BINDING SITES; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOPARTICLES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 52649165549     PISSN: 17486041     EISSN: 1748605X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/3/3/034001     Document Type: Article

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