Hierarchical structures of bone and bioinspired bone tissue engineering

Y Liu, D Luo, T Wang - Small, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bone, as a mineralized composite of inorganic (mostly carbonated hydroxyapatite) and
organic (mainly type I collagen) phases, possesses a unique combination of remarkable …

[HTML][HTML] Polymeric materials based on silk proteins

JG Hardy, LM Römer, TR Scheibel - Polymer, 2008 - Elsevier
Silks are protein-based fibers made by arthropods for a variety of task-specific applications.
In this article, we review the key features of silk proteins. This article initially focuses on the …

Intrinsically disordered proteins and their environment: effects of strong denaturants, temperature, pH, counter ions, membranes, binding partners, osmolytes, and …

VN Uversky - The protein journal, 2009 - Springer
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) differ from “normal” ordered proteins at several levels,
structural, functional and conformational. Amino acid biases characteristic for IDPs …

Conformational behavior and aggregation of α-synuclein in organic solvents: modeling the effects of membranes

LA Munishkina, C Phelan, VN Uversky, AL Fink - Biochemistry, 2003 - ACS Publications
Intracellular proteinaceous inclusions (Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites) of α-synuclein are
pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease …

Electrospinning of gelatin fibers using solutions with low acetic acid concentration: Effect of solvent composition on both diameter of electrospun fibers and cytotoxicity

M Erencia, F Cano, JA Tornero… - Journal of Applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Gelatin fibers were prepared by electrospinning of gelatin/acetic acid/water ternary mixtures
with the aim of studying the feasibility of fabricating gelatin nanofiber mats at room …

Processing and modification of films made from recombinant spider silk proteins

D Hümmerich, U Slotta, T Scheibel - Applied Physics A, 2006 - Springer
Protein films represent an interesting class of materials with various possibilities for
applications. We investigated films made of two different synthetic spider silk proteins …

Bioprosthetic heart valve with polyphosphazene

TA Gordy, NS Ung, U Fritz, R Denk - US Patent 7,922,764, 2011 - Google Patents
5,914,388 A 6, 1999 Allcock WO 99.16477 A3 4f1999 5,980,972 A 1 1/1999 Ding WO
9942147 A1 8, 1999 5.997, 301 A 12/1999 Linden WO 99.52356 A1 10, 1999 6,007,573 A …

Effects of heat-treated β-lactoglobulin and its aggregates on foaming properties

A Moro, GD Báez, PA Busti, GA Ballerini… - Food Hydrocolloids, 2011 - Elsevier
The effects on foaming properties of the aggregates formed by heating concentrate beta-
lactoglobulin solutions (55 mg mL− 1, pH 6.8) at 85° C from 1 to 15 min were investigated …

Methanol strengthens hydrogen bonds and weakens hydrophobic interactions in proteins–a combined molecular dynamics and NMR study

S Hwang, Q Shao, H Williams, C Hilty… - The Journal of Physical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A combined simulation and experimental study was performed to investigate how methanol
affects the structure of a model peptide BBA5. BBA5 forms a stable β-hairpin-α-helix …

The CN stretching band of aliphatic thiocyanate is sensitive to solvent dynamics and specific solvation

MG Maienschein-Cline… - The Journal of Physical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Infrared absorption spectra in the C⋮ N stretching frequency region were collected for
methyl thiocyanate, the simplest model aliphatic thiocyanate, in several common solvents to …