Equilibrium cluster formation in concentrated protein solutions and colloids

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7016, 2004, Pages 492-495

  Stradner, Anna ^a   Sedgwick, Helen ^b   Cardinaux, Frédéric ^a   Poon, Wilson C K ^b   Egelhaaf, Stefan U ^b   Schurtenberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISEASES; DNA; NUCLEATION; PHASE SEPARATION; PHOTONS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

COLLOID-POLYMER SYSTEMS; EQUILIBRIUM CLUSTER FORMATION; GEL PHASES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

PROTEINS;

DNA; POLYMER; PROTEIN;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GEL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

COLLOIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUTRON DIFFRACTION; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POLYMERS; PROTEINS; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 9644259209     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03109     Document Type: Article

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