Lysozyme Amyloid Fibrils Doped by Carbon Nanotubes

Nanopore analysis of amyloid fibrils formed by lysozyme aggregation.

The measurement of single particle size distributions of amyloid fibrils is crucial for determining mechanisms of growth and toxicity. Nanopore sensing is an attractive solution for this problem since it gives information on aggregates' shapes with relatively high throughput for a single particle technology. In this paper we study the translocation of lysozyme fibrils through quartz glass nanop...

Diameter-selective dispersion of double-walled carbon nanotubes by lysozyme.

We have utilized lysozyme to non-covalently functionalize and disperse double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) in aqueous solution. Lysozyme preferentially binds and disperses DWNTs with larger diameters. This is a facile and effective method to fractionalize and enrich DWNTs with certain diameters.

Identification of the core structure of lysozyme amyloid fibrils by proteolysis.

Human lysozyme variants form amyloid fibrils in individuals suffering from a familial non-neuropathic systemic amyloidosis. In vitro, wild-type human and hen lysozyme, and the amyloidogenic mutants can be induced to form amyloid fibrils when incubated under appropriate conditions. In this study, fibrils of wild-type human lysozyme formed at low pH have been analyzed by a combination of limited ...

Fractional Flux Periodicity in doped carbon nanotubes

Weak backscattering in deflected doped carbon nanotubes.

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are highly sensitive towards dipole molecules, mechanical loads, interfacial contacts, chemical modifications and temperature fluctuations. Their applications are currently limited to electron-field-emission and gas-sensing devices. In fact, CNTs can also be used as strain-sensing elements; for example, variations in CNT resistance with bending strain have been character...