Biomembrane electrochemistry
by Blank, Martin, Vodyanoy, Igor
fromAdvances in chemistry series
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which has a devastating impact on the lives of patients, characterised primarily by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the brain. Drug delivery to the mammalian brain is notoriously difficult due to the…
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The use of low-molecular weight peptide-based hydrogelators (LMWGs) for the immobilisation of enzymes is presented in this thesis. Low-molecular weight hydrogelators are a class of materials which are highly suitable for increasing enzyme lifetimes as they create a suitable biom…
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Determination of protein structures (such as α-helix, β-sheet, unstructured conformation, and so on) is important to correlate the function of a protein with its structure. X-ray crystallography is a powerful technique but it requires proteins to form single crystal structure. H…