Title

Fractal aggregates in protein crystal nucleation

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-17-2008

Abstract

Monte Carlo simulations of homogeneous nucleation for a protein model with an exceedingly short-ranged attractive potential yielded a nonconventional crystal nucleation mechanism, which proceeds by the formation of fractal, low-dimensional aggregates followed by a concurrent collapse and increase of the crystallinity of these aggregates to become compact ordered nuclei. This result corroborates a recently proposed two-step mechanism for protein crystal nucleation from solution.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

The journal of physical chemistry. B

First Page

4725

Last Page

30

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