Protein cages: from fundamentals to advanced applications

TGW Edwardson, MD Levasseur, S Tetter… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Proteins that self-assemble into polyhedral shell-like structures are useful molecular
containers both in nature and in the laboratory. Here we review efforts to repurpose diverse …

Protein assembly: versatile approaches to construct highly ordered nanostructures

Q Luo, C Hou, Y Bai, R Wang, J Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional
protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into …

Accurate computational design of three-dimensional protein crystals

Z Li, S Wang, U Nattermann, AK Bera, AJ Borst… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Protein crystallization plays a central role in structural biology. Despite this, the process of
crystallization remains poorly understood and highly empirical, with crystal contacts, lattice …

Bionanoparticles in cancer imaging, diagnosis, and treatment

Y Li, Q Bao, S Yang, M Yang, C Mao - View, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biological molecules such as DNA, proteins, and lipids can be assembled into naturally
existing nanoparticles, such as bacterial viruses (also called bacteriophages or phages) …

Multicomponent self-assembly as a tool to harness new properties from peptides and proteins in material design

BO Okesola, A Mata - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature is enriched with a wide variety of complex, synergistic, and highly functional protein-
based multicomponent assemblies. As such, nature has served as a source of inspiration for …

Templated techniques for the synthesis and assembly of plasmonic nanostructures

MR Jones, KD Osberg, RJ Macfarlane… - Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
The field of plasmonics has become one of the most interesting and active research areas in
nanotechnology, enabling numerous fundamental studies and applications in a variety of …

Design of virus-based nanomaterials for medicine, biotechnology, and energy

AM Wen, NF Steinmetz - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This review provides an overview of recent developments in “chemical virology.” Viruses, as
materials, provide unique nanoscale scaffolds that have relevance in chemical biology and …

Mechanisms of virus assembly

JD Perlmutter, MF Hagan - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Viruses are nanoscale entities containing a nucleic acid genome encased in a protein shell
called a capsid and in some cases are surrounded by a lipid bilayer membrane. This review …

Self-assembly and transformation of hybrid nano-objects and nanostructures under equilibrium and non-equilibrium conditions

S Mann - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Understanding how chemically derived processes control the construction and organization
of matter across extended and multiple length scales is of growing interest in many areas of …

Nanotechnology, nanotoxicology, and neuroscience

WH Suh, KS Suslick, GD Stucky, YH Suh - Progress in neurobiology, 2009 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology, which deals with features as small as a 1 billionth of a meter, began to
enter into mainstream physical sciences and engineering some 20 years ago. Recent …