Designing a Nanotube Using Naturally Occurring Protein Building Blocks

Chung-Jung Tsai; Jie Zheng; Ruth Nussinov

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020042

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Designing a Nanotube Using Naturally Occurring Protein Building Blocks

Chung-Jung Tsai,

Affiliation Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research, Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
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Jie Zheng,

Affiliation Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research, Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
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Ruth Nussinov

Affiliations Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research, Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America , Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Designing a Nanotube Using Naturally Occurring Protein Building Blocks

Chung-Jung Tsai,
Jie Zheng,
Ruth Nussinov

Published: April 28, 2006
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020042

About the Authors

Chung-Jung Tsai: Affiliation Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research, Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Jie Zheng: Affiliation Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research, Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Ruth Nussinov: Affiliations Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research, Nanobiology Program, National Cancer Institute-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America , Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

CJT and RN conceived and designed the experiments. CJT performed the experiments. JZ analyzed the data. CJT contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. CJT and RN wrote the paper.

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