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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 36, Issue 8, Pages 1282-1291Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b604537p
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Hair is a proteinaceous fibre with a strongly hierarchical organization of subunits, from the alpha-keratin chains, via intermediate filaments, to the fibre. The chemistry of the different morphological compartments results in exciting physical properties, including the hydrophilic/ hydrophobic paradox. The present tutorial review will be of interest for protein- as well as polymer chemists, who want to learn from nature, and also for biochemists interested in the cytoskeleton and particularly in intermediate filaments; it also presents a scientific basis for hair cosmetics.
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