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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Nano Lett. 2012 May 31;12(6):3322–3328. doi: 10.1021/nl301529p

Table 1.

Characterization of Alexa 488-labeled ELP constructs.

Construct ELP C-terminal functionality MW (kDa) Rh (nm) 37 °C1 Rh (nm) 42 °C1
Arg5-ELPBC (Val-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly)40-(Val-Pro-Gly-X-Gly)60 [X=Ala:Gly] Arg5 40.6 5.5 ± 0.1 21.0 ± 1.3
ELPBC (Val-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly)40-(Val-Pro-Gly-X-Gly)60 [X=Ala:Gly] none 39.8 5.8 ± 0.2 20.5 ± 0.6
Arg5-ELP (Val-Pro-Gly-X-Gly)100 [X=Ala:Gly] Arg5 39.2 5.4 ± 0.2 5.2 ± 0.1
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ELP at 10 μM in PBS. Data represents the average of 3 replicates ± SEM.