Tuning shape and internal structure of protein dropletsviabiopolymer filaments
Abstract
Filamentous dopants impart liquid crystalline structure on otherwise isotropic droplets of phase separated protein. These droplets have tunable shape that transitions from tactoid to sphere with increasing size or shortening filament length.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 10.1039/c9sm02462j
Entities
People
- Avinash Patel
- Danielle R Scheff
- Kimberly L Weirich
- Kinjal Dasbiswas
- Margaret Gardel
- Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- James Franck Institute
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- National Science Foundation
- United States Army
- University of California
- University of Chicago
- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry