The assembly of protein strands into fibrils
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 03:28
in Physics & Chemistry
The Atomic Force Microscope depicts on its screen the few nanometre thick and few micrometre long fibres as white flexible sticks, crisscrossing the surface on which they are deposited. The very peculiar property of these proteins lies in fact that they can self assemble into complex ribbon-like twisted fibres...