Too-few proteins prompt nanoparticles to clump
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 15:04
in Physics & Chemistry
Low concentrations of serum albumin proteins have the ability to bind one-to-one to gold nanoparticles and, upon unfolding, prompt them to aggregate, according to scientists. The finding may be important to those who study diseases caused by protein aggregation or nanoparticle toxicity.