Protein adsorption onto organically-modified silica glass leads to a different structure than sol-gel encapsulation. B. Menaa, C. Torres, M. Herrero, V. Rives, A.R.W. Gilbert, and D.K. Eggers, Biophysical Journal (2008) 95, L51-L53. PMID: 18676642.  Link

Favourable influence of hydrophobic surfaces on protein structure in porous organically-modified silica glasses. B. Menaa, M. Herrero, V. Rives, M. Lavrenko, and D.K. Eggers, Biomaterials (2008) 29, 2710-2718. PMID: 18359512.  Link

Hydrophobic, organically-modified silica gels enhance the secondary structure of encapsulated apomyoglobin, V.A. Rocha and D.K. Eggers, Chemical Communications (2007), 1266-1268. PMID: 17356778  Link

Crowding and hydration effects on protein conformation: A study with sol-gel encapsulated proteins, D.K. Eggers and J.S. Valentine, Journal of Molecular Biology (2001) 314, 911-922. PMID: 11734007  Link

Molecular confinement influences protein structure and enhances thermal protein stability, D.K. Eggers and J.S. Valentine, Protein Science (2001) 10, 250-261. PMID: 11266611  Link

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