A never-ending love story with elastin: A scientific autobiography

Nanomedicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 469-487

  Tamburro, Antonio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amyloids; Conformational equilibria; Elasticity; Elastin; Self organization

Indexed keywords

DESMOSINE; ELASTIN; HEMOGLOBIN; ISODESMOSINE; MYOGLOBIN; POLYPEPTIDE; TROPOELASTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ELASTICITY; EXON; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENE CASSETTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ELASTICITY; ELASTIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TROPOELASTIN;

EID: 67649970174     PISSN: 17435889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/nnm.09.18     Document Type: Review

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