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ReviewPolymers2019

Macro- and Microphase Separated Protein-Polyelectrolyte Complexes: Design Parameters and Current Progress.

Justin M Horn, Rachel A Kapelner, Allie C Obermeyer

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Review in Polymers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Exploring the effects of excipients on complex coacervation.Journal of colloid and interface science · 2025
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  8. Engineering Protein-Polyelectrolyte Interactions for Cellular Applications.Annual review of chemical and biomolecular engineering · 2025
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  15. Polyelectrolyte Complexes from Oppositely Charged Filamentous Viruses.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2023
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  17. Functional enzyme-polymer complexes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Justin M HornDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. jmh2301@columbia.edu.
Rachel A KapelnerDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. rak2172@columbia.edu.
Allie C ObermeyerDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. aco2134@columbia.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-containing polyelectrolyte complexes (PECs) are a diverse class of materials, composed of two or more oppositely charged polyelectrolytes that condense and phase separate near overall charge neutrality. Such phase-separation can take on a variety of morphologies from macrophase separated liquid condensates, to solid precipitates, to monodispersed spherical micelles. In this review, we present an overview of recent advances in protein-containing PECs, with an overall goal of defining relevant design parameters for macro- and microphase separated PECs. For both classes of PECs, the influence of protein characteristics, such as surface charge and patchiness, co-polyelectrolyte characteristics, such as charge density and structure, and overall solution characteristics, such as salt concentration and pH, are considered. After overall design features are established, potential applications in food processing, biosensing, drug delivery, and protein purification are discussed and recent characterization techniques for protein-containing PECs are highlighted.

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complex coacervationmicellesphase separationpolyelectrolytesprotein materials

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PMID30960562
PMCPMC6523202

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