| Literature DB >> 19072304 |
Stephen Whitelam1, Carl Rogers, Andrea Pasqua, Chad Paavola, Jonathan Trent, Phillip L Geissler.
Abstract
Protein complexes called rosettasomes self-assemble in solution to form large-scale filamentous and planar structures. The relative abundance of these aggregates varies abruptly with environmental conditions and sample composition. Our simulations of a model of patchy nanoparticles can reproduce this sharp crossover, but only if particles are allowed to switch between two internal states favoring different geometries of local binding. These results demonstrate how local conformational adaptivity can fundamentally influence the cooperativity of pattern-forming dynamics.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19072304 PMCID: PMC2670443 DOI: 10.1021/nl8029306
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nano Lett ISSN: 1530-6984 Impact factor: 11.189