Precipitate behavior, models, protein

Proteins are both colloids and polymers. Therefore, attempts have been made to understand the phenomenon of protein aggregation with the help of models from the polymer and colloid fields such as DLVO theory, describing the stability of colloidal particles, or phase behavior and attraction-repulsion models from polymers (De Young, 1993). For faster progress, more phase diagrams for equilibrium protein precipitation, in both the crystalline and the non-crystalline state, as well as more data on observations of defined protein oligomers or polymers, are required. 

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