Keratin-water-NMF interaction as a three layer model in the human stratum corneum using in vivo confocal Raman microscopy

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Choe, Chunsik ^a,b   Schleusener, Johannes ^a   Lademann, Jürgen ^a   Darvin, Maxim E ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b KIM IL SUNG UNIVERSITY   (North Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; KERATIN; TYROSINE; WATER;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDES; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; KERATINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TYROSINE; WATER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85034752447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16202-x     Document Type: Article

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