Self-assembly of phenylalanine oligopeptides: Insights from experiments and simulations

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5020-5029

  Tamamis, Phanourios ^a   Adler Abramovich, Lihi ^a,b   Reches, Meital ^b   Marshall, Karen ^c   Sikorski, Pawel ^d   Serpell, Louise ^c   Gazit, Ehud ^b   Archontis, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOMATERIAL; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PHENYLALANINE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL; HYDROGEN BOND; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTROCHEMICAL MICROSCOPY; SIMULATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 68949088198     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.026     Document Type: Article

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