Amyloid-Like Structures Formed by Azobenzene Peptides: Light-Triggered Disassembly
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Andreas A. Deeg,1 Tobias E. Schrader,2 Halina Strzalka,1, 3 Jose Pfizer,4 Luis Moroder,4 and Wolfgang Zinth1 1 Institute of BioMolecular Optics and Munich Center of Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 80538 Munich, Germany 2Jülich Centre for Neutron Science (JCNS), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Outstation at FRM II, 85747 Garching, Germany 3Physical Chemistry Institute, University of Zürich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland 4Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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