Conspectus Ferritins are spherical iron storage proteins within cells that are composed of a
combination of 24 subunits of two types, heavy-chain ferritin (HFn) and light-chain ferritin …

Precise nanomedicine has been extensively explored for efficient cancer imaging and
targeted cancer therapy, as evidenced by a few breakthroughs in their preclinical and …

Serum protein as naturally essential biomacromolecules has recently emerged as a
versatile carrier for diagnostic and therapeutic drug delivery for cancer nanomedicine with …

Ferritins are spherical iron storage proteins within cells, composed of 24 subunits of two
types, heavy-chain ferritin (HFn) and light-chain ferritin. Ferritins auto-assemble naturally …

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 …

The essence of bionanotechnology lies in the application of nanotechnology/nanomaterials
to solve the biological problems. Quantum dots and nanoparticles hold potential biomedical …

Nature is a great source of inspiration in solving extremely complex problems, and it is every
day more common to use its strategies for the development of new materials, methods, and …

The pH-dependent structures of the ferritin shell (apoferritin, 24-mer) and the ferrihydrite
core, under physiological conditions that permit enzymatic activity, were investigated by …

Compartmentalization is a hallmark of living systems. Through compartmentalization,
ubiquitous protein nanocages such as viral capsids, ferritin, small heat shock proteins, and …

Biomolecules can act as functional templates for the organization of inorganic particles.
Here we use two protein containers, engineered with opposite surface charge, as building …