TY - JOUR
T1 - Viscoelastic properties of semiflexible filamentous bacteriophage fd
AU - Schmidt, Frank G.
AU - Hinner, Bernhard
AU - Sackmann, Erich
AU - Tang, Jay X.
PY - 2000/10
Y1 - 2000/10
N2 - The viscoelastic properties of the filamentous bacteriophage fd were analyzed and compared to the cytoskeletal protein filament F-actin. The F-actin and fd filaments differed significantly with regard to polydispersity, which may strongly affect the network properties. It was found that the solutions of fd exhibit certain viscoelastic features that resemble those of solutions of F-actin of short mean filament length, including a narrow and slanted plateau region, a power law for the plateau modulus, and a terminal relaxation time.
AB - The viscoelastic properties of the filamentous bacteriophage fd were analyzed and compared to the cytoskeletal protein filament F-actin. The F-actin and fd filaments differed significantly with regard to polydispersity, which may strongly affect the network properties. It was found that the solutions of fd exhibit certain viscoelastic features that resemble those of solutions of F-actin of short mean filament length, including a narrow and slanted plateau region, a power law for the plateau modulus, and a terminal relaxation time.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.5509
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.5509
M3 - Article
C2 - 11089110
AN - SCOPUS:0034287463
SN - 1063-651X
VL - 62
SP - 5509
EP - 5517
JO - Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
JF - Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics
IS - 4 B
ER -