Novel proteins: from fold to function

BA Smith, MH Hecht - Current opinion in chemical biology, 2011 - Elsevier
The field of de novo protein design, though only two decades old, has already reached the
point where designing and selecting novel proteins that are functionally active has been …

Building Logic into Peptide Networks: Bottom‐Up and Top‐Down

G Ashkenasy, Z Dadon, S Alesebi… - Israel Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this review we discuss our recent efforts directed at understanding the dynamics of
catalytic networks, and their utility for performing Boolean logic operations. We start by …

Surface termination control in chemically deposited PbS films: nucleation and growth on GaAs (111) A and GaAs (111) B

A Osherov, M Matmor, N Froumin… - The Journal of …, 2011 - ACS Publications
This study addresses the question of whether chemically deposited PbS thin films grown on
GaAs (111) are affected by the oppositely terminated substrate surfaces, gallium terminated …

Peptide directed growth of gold films

M Matmor, N Ashkenasy - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The unique properties of peptides have led to their use in diverse applications in medicine
and nanotechnology. In order to demonstrate their utility as multifunctional, selective …

Preparation and Integration of Β-Amyloid Peptide Nanofibers onto Microfabricated Electrodes for Sensing Applications

NN Kissoon - 2011 - diginole.lib.fsu.edu
This work develops protocols to obtain a well-dispersed β-amyloid (1-40) nanofiber network,
as well as methods to integrate the nanofiber network with microfabricated metalized …