Publication Date:
2018-05-18
Description:
Author(s): Slav A. Semerdzhiev, Saskia Lindhoud, Anja Stefanovic, Vinod Subramaniam, Paul van der Schoot, and Mireille M. A. E. Claessens In water, networks of semiflexible fibrils of the protein α -synuclein stiffen significantly with increasing temperature. We make plausible that this reversible stiffening is a result of hydrophobic contacts between the fibrils that become more prominent with increasing temperature. The good agreemen... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 208102] Published Thu May 17, 2018
Keywords:
Polymer, Soft Matter, Biological, Climate, and Interdisciplinary Physics
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics