Small angle X-ray scattering for nanoparticle research

T Li, AJ Senesi, B Lee - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
X-ray scattering is a structural characterization tool that has impacted diverse fields of study.
It is unique in its ability to examine materials in real time and under realistic sample …

A decade and a half of protein intrinsic disorder: biology still waits for physics

VN Uversky - Protein Science, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The abundant existence of proteins and regions that possess specific functions without
being uniquely folded into unique 3D structures has become accepted by a significant …

The self-assembly, aggregation and phase transitions of food protein systems in one, two and three dimensions

R Mezzenga, P Fischer - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The aggregation of proteins is of fundamental relevance in a number of daily phenomena,
as important and diverse as blood coagulation, medical diseases, or cooking an egg in the …

Intrinsic disorder-based protein interactions and their modulators

VN Uversky - Current pharmaceutical design, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
It is clear now that proteins lacking ordered structure, generally known as intrinsically
disordered proteins (IDPs), possess numerous biological functions that complement …

Multitude of binding modes attainable by intrinsically disordered proteins: a portrait gallery of disorder-based complexes

VN Uversky - Chemical Society Reviews, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Proteins are constantly involved in the multitude of various interactions creating
sophisticated networks which define and control all (or almost all) the biological processes …

Reversible self-association of a concentrated monoclonal antibody solution mediated by Fab–Fab interaction that impacts solution viscosity

S Kanai, JUN Liu, TW Patapoff, SJ Shire - Journal of pharmaceutical …, 2008 - Elsevier
Reversible self-association of a monoclonal antibody (MAb) in a high concentration
formulation results in a solution with a high viscosity. The nature of the self-association of full …

Protein interactions studied by SAXS: effect of ionic strength and protein concentration for BSA in aqueous solutions

F Zhang, MWA Skoda, RMJ Jacobs… - The Journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
We have studied a series of samples of bovine serum albumin (BSA) solutions with protein
concentration, c, ranging from 2 to 500 mg/mL and ionic strength, I, from 0 to 2 M by small …

Aggregation of silica nanoparticles directed by adsorption of lysozyme

B Bharti, J Meissner, GH Findenegg - Langmuir, 2011 - ACS Publications
The interaction of the globular protein lysozyme with silica nanoparticles of diameter 20 nm
was studied in a pH range between the isoelectric points (IEPs) of silica and the protein (pH …

Reentrant condensation of proteins in solution induced by multivalent counterions

F Zhang, MWA Skoda, RMJ Jacobs, S Zorn, RA Martin… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
Negatively charged globular proteins in solution undergo a condensation upon adding
trivalent counterions between two critical concentrations C* and C**, C*< C**. This reentrant …

Lysozyme protein solution with an intermediate range order structure

Y Liu, L Porcar, J Chen, WR Chen, P Falus… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The formation of equilibrium clusters has been studied in both a prototypical colloidal system
and protein solutions. The appearance of a low-Q correlation peak in small angle scattering …