Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 10 , Pages 944-955 , December 2006

Electrochemical screening of self-assembling β-sheet peptides using supported phospholipid monolayers

  • E. Protopapa

      Affiliations

    • Center for Self Organising Molecular Systems, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    • ,
  • A. Aggeli

      Affiliations

    • Center for Self Organising Molecular Systems, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    • ,
  • N. Boden

      Affiliations

    • Center for Self Organising Molecular Systems, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    • ,
  • P.F. Knowles

      Affiliations

    • School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    • ,
  • L.C. Salay

      Affiliations

    • Center for Self Organising Molecular Systems, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    • Present address: Laboratory of Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, CP 26077, 05513-970 Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    • ,
  • A. Nelson

      Affiliations

    • Center for Self Organising Molecular Systems, School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 113 6409; fax: +44 113 6452.

Received 28 April 2006 ,Accepted 4 May 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.05.002

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 28, Issue 10 , Pages 944-955 , December 2006

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