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SUBMITTER: Soon AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3925836 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soon Allyson S C AS Smith Michael H MH Herman Emily S ES Lyon L Andrew LA Barker Thomas H TH
Advanced healthcare materials 20130226 7
Elastin-like polypeptides (ELPs) are polypentapeptides that undergo hydrophobic collapse and aggregation above a specific transition temperature, Tt . ELP diblocks sharing a common "core" block (I60) but varying "outer" blocks (A80, P40) were designed, where Tt,I < Tt,A < Tt,P . The formation of ∼55 nm diameter mixed micelles from these ELP diblocks was verified using dynamic light scattering (DLS), multiangle light scattering (MALS) and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET). To confer a ...[more]