Academic Papers Published by Avacta
- Common Variation in the C-terminal Region of the Fibrinogen b-chain: Effects on Fibrin Structure and Clot Rigidity, R. Ajjan, B.C.B. Lim, K.F. Standeven, R. Harrand, S. Dolling, F. Phoenix, R. Greaves, R. Hassan, S. Connell, D.A. Smith, J.W. Weisel, P.J. Grant and R.A.S. Ariëns, Blood, 111, 643-650, 2008
- Visualization of Detergent Solubilization of Membranes: Implications for the Isolation of Rafts, Ashley E. Garner, D. Alastair Smith, and Nigel M. Hooper, Biophys. J.94: 1326-1340, 2008
- Single Molecule FRET Assays Reveal Heterogeneous Folding Ensembles in a Simple RNA Stem Loop, C. Gell, T. Sabir, J. Westwood, A. Rashid, D. A. Smith, S-A. Harris, P. G. Stockley, Journal of Molecular Biology, 384, 264-278, 2008.
- Chemical Probing of Single Osteosarcoma Cells with Gold Nanoaggregates by Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering, Hong-Wu Tang, Xuebin B. Yang, Jennifer Kirkham and D. Alastair Smith, Applied Spectroscopy, 62(10),1060-1069, 2008
- Nanoscale probing reveals that reduced stiffness of clots from fibrinongen lacking 42 N-terminal Bb-chain residues is due to the formation of abnormal oligomers. Radwa H Abou-Saleh, Simon D Connell, Robert Harrand, Ramzi A Ajjan, Michael W Mosesson, D Alastair Smith, Peter kJ Grant, Robert A S Ariens, Biophys J, 2008.
- A new atomic force microscope force ramp technique using digital force feedback control reveals mechanically weak protein unfolding events, M Kawakami, D A Smith, Nanotechnology 19 495704, 2008.
- Internal friction of single polypeptide chains at high stretch, B S Khatri, K Byrne, M Kawakami, D J Brockwell, D A Smith, S E Radford, T C B McLeish, Faraday Discussion, 139, 35-51, 2008.
- The mechanism of folding of Im7 reveals competition between functional and kinetic evolutionary constraints C T Friel, D A Smith, M Vendruscolo, J Gsponer, S E Radford, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 16(3), 318-324, 2009.
- Potential for Raman Spectroscopy to Provide Cancer Screening using a Peripheral Blood Sample, A T Harris, A Lungari, C J Needham, S L Smith, M A Lones, N Cooper, S E Fisher, X Yang, A S High, J Kirkham and D A Smith, accepted by Head & Neck Oncology, 2009.
- High Resolution Imaging of Actin Filaments in Living Cells under Physiologically Relevant Conditions Using Apertureless Near-field Microscopy J. J. Wang, J. Kirkham, J. Donegan and D. A. Smith,, submitted to the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
- Reduction of the Damping on an AFM Cantilever in Fluid by the use of Micropillars, M. Kawakami, Y. Taniguchi, Y. Hiratsuka, M Shimoike, and D. A. Smith, submitted to Langmuir.
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