Towards the nonstick egg: designing fluorous proteins.
Anyone who has made scrambled eggs will have had cause to praise the properties of Teflon. Teflon's highly chemically inert and nonstick nature derives from the perfluorinated polymer polytetrafluoroethylene. Perfluorocarbons have unique and valuable physical properties not found in nature. By incorporating fluorine into proteins, it might be possible to produce biological molecules with novel and useful properties.
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Department of Chemistry, Division of Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1055, USA.
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D017611:Fluorine Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D015202:Protein Engineering; D011506:Proteins / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology
D017611:Fluorine Compounds; D011506:Proteins