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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 101, 期 10, 页码 2502-2506出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.09.056
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- Mathers Foundation
- National Science Foundation [DMR-0702890]
- National Science Foundation Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team [CTS0609318]
- Office of Integrative Activities
- Office Of The Director [903806] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We show that the kinetics of nanochain formation of amelogenin molecules is well described by a combination of translational and rotational diffusion of a simplified anisotropic bipolar model consisting of hydrophobic spherical colloid particles and a point charge located on each particle surface. The colloid particles interact via a standard depletion attraction whereas the point charges interact through a screened Coulomb repulsion. We study the kinetics via a Brownian dynamics simulation of both translational and rotational motions and show that the anisotropy brought in by the charge dramatically affects the kinetic pathway of cluster formation and our simple model captures the main features of the experimental observations.
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