Materials for the production of nanometer structures and use the

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1995-10-12

1999-01-26

Carlson, Karen Cochrane

Chemistry: natural resins or derivatives; peptides or proteins;

Proteins, i.e., more than 100 amino acid residues

530300, 530324, 435 691, 435 697, C07K 1400, C12P 2106

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058640134

ABSTRACT:
The present invention pertains to nanostructures, i.e., nanometer sized structures useful in the construction of microscopic and macroscopic structures. In particular, the present invention pertains to nanostructures based on bacteriophage T4 tail fiber proteins and variants thereof.

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