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Particle‐Dissociating Peptides
Author(s) -
Brown Stanley,
Mathiasen Signe
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201002130
Subject(s) - solvation , particle (ecology) , molecule , materials science , combinatorial chemistry , nanotechnology , computational biology , biology , chemistry , organic chemistry , ecology
Proteins dissociating insoluble particles are identified through a rapid genetic test. One polypeptide catalyzes the solvation of insoluble rare earth salts, with each protein molecule releasing thousands of holmium cations in less than one hour.