Papel de las fuerzas intermoleculares en la definición de las propiedades materiales de las nanofibrillas de

Tuomas P Knowles1, Anthony W Fitzpatrick, Sarah Meehan

  • 1Nanoscience Centre, University of Cambridge, J. J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FF, UK.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 22, 2007
PubMed
Resumen

Las fibrillas amiloides, nanoestructuras de proteínas autoensambladas, exhiben una rigidez notable, que varía en más de cuatro órdenes de magnitud. Sus propiedades materiales se originan en una red fundamental de enlaces de hidrógeno, modulada por interacciones de cadena lateral, estableciéndolas como biomateriales de alto rendimiento.

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