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SUBMITTER: Lenz M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5669487 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature physics 20170703 11
Controlling the self-assembly of supramolecular structures is vital for living cells, and a central challenge for engineering at the nano- and microscales [1, 2]. Nevertheless, even particles without optimized shapes can robustly form well-defined morphologies. This is the case in numerous medical conditions where normally soluble proteins aggregate into fibers [3, 4]. Beyond the diversity of molecular mechanisms involved [5, 6], we propose that fibers generically arise from the aggregation of i ...[more]