Self-assembly of Peptide Nanotubes

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Shuguang Zhang

Center for Biomedical Engineering, Center for Bits & AtomsMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA 02139, USA

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Peptide surfactant-detergents

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Sylvain Vauthey, PNAS, 4/2002, Steve Santoso, NanoLetters, 7/2002Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Langmuir, 5/2003

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+solubilized membrane proteinslipid bilayerdetergent micelles + monomerslipid-detergent micelles

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The energy harvest systems are embedded in membranes

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Das, et al., NanoLetters, June 2004Peptide detergents stabilized photosystem I for long-term

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Das, et al., NanoLetters, June 2004Peptide detergents stabilized photosystem I generate current & voltage

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