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- ISSN: 0929-8665
- E-ISSN: 1875-5305
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Energy Barrier for Protein Adhesion and Crystal Nucleation on Flat Alien Substrates
- Source: Protein and Peptide Letters, Volume 12, Issue 6, Aug 2005, p. 541 - 546
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- 01 Aug 2005
Abstract
From the experimentally defined rate of heterogeneous formation of protein crystals and number of collisions between protein molecules with substrate, the energy barrier for adhesion of protein molecule to alien materials is estimated. According to the Boltzmann equation for energy distribution this barrier is of the order of 10 -12 erg per molecule.
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