Function in proteins largely depends on the acquisition of specific structures through folding
at physiological time scales. Under both equilibrium and non-equilibrium states, proteins …

Existing medical materials (such as silicone rubber, glass slides, etc.) fail to meet the
functional requirements of biosensing, cell culture, and drug delivery due to their poor …

Exchangeable apolipoproteins are located in the surface of lipoprotein particles and
regulate lipid metabolism through direct protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions. These …

The assembly of most single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) viruses into icosahedral nucleocapsids
is a spontaneous process driven by protein–protein and RNA–protein interactions. The …

In contrast to the notion established for many years that protein function depends on rigid 3D
structures, nowadays there is important evidence suggesting that non-structured segments …

It has been well known that plasma pretreatment can stabilize the hydrocarbon silane
monolayer self-assembled on a mica surface. However, the extent of this improvement is not …

To provide better understanding of how a protein secondary structure affects protein−
protein and protein− surface interactions, forces between amphiphilic α-helical proteins …

The surface forces apparatus technique and the Johnson− Kendall− Roberts theory were
used to study the elastic properties of an n-octadecyltriethoxysilane self-assembled …

Biological and physical sciences possess a long-standing tradition of cooperativity as
separate but related subfields of science. For some time, this cooperativity has been limited …

The concept of protein folding is directly related with the process of reversible disorder-
toorder transitions, by which an unfolded polypeptide chain folds into a specific functional …