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Modeling Equilibrium Clusters in Lysozyme Solutions

Frédéric Cardinaux, Anna Stradner, Peter Schurtenberger, Francesco Sciortino, Emanuela Zaccarelli

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0607264

Abstract

We present a combined experimental and numerical study of the equilibrium cluster formation in globular protein solutions under no-added salt conditions. We show that a cluster phase emerges as a result of a competition between a long-range screened Coulomb repulsion and a short-range attraction. A simple effective potential, in which only depth and width of the attractive part of the potential are optimized, accounts in a remarkable way for the wavevector dependence of the X-ray scattering structure factor.

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