Quadruplex knots as network nodes: nano-partitioning of guanosine derivates in supramolecular hydrogels-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Quadruplex knots as network nodes: nano-partitioning of guanosine derivates in supramolecular hydrogels

Published:2019 Issue:11 Volume:15 Page:2315-2318
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Nava Giovanni¹²³⁴^ORCID,Carducci Federica⁵⁶⁷⁴^ORCID,Itri Rosangela⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹^ORCID,Yoneda Juliana Sakamoto⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹^ORCID,Bellini Tommaso¹²³⁴^ORCID,Mariani Paolo⁵⁶⁷⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale

2. Università di Milano

3. 20129 Milano

4. Italy

5. Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente

6. Università Politecnica delle Marche

7. 60131 Ancona

8. Departamento Física Aplicada

9. Instituto de Física

10. Universidade de São Paulo

11. Brazil

Abstract

Gua/GMP hydrogels are formed by disordered microcoils of intertwined filaments (knots, rich in gua) connected by long linear GMP-rich threads. Gua provides flexibility and thread attraction, responsible for hydrogel stability (AFM image is 2.5 × 2.5 μm).

Funder

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

Regione Lombardia

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2019/SM/C8SM02616E

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