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 …

Functionalizing nanoparticles with biological molecules: developing chemistries that facilitate nanotechnology

KE Sapsford, WR Algar, L Berti, KB Gemmill… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

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 …

Biosensor technology: recent advances in threat agent detection and medicine

J Kirsch, C Siltanen, Q Zhou, A Revzin… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Biosensors are of great significance because of their capability to resolve a potentially large
number of analytical problems and challenges in very diverse areas such as defense …

Applications of orthogonal “click” chemistries in the synthesis of functional soft materials

RK Iha, KL Wooley, AM Nystrom, DJ Burke… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Applications for advanced functional soft materials that possess precisely engineered
properties and functional groups have been expanding significantly with the development of …

Analyzing nanomaterial bioconjugates: a review of current and emerging purification and characterization techniques

KE Sapsford, KM Tyner, BJ Dair… - Analytical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
REVIEW be defined as the intersection of nanotechnology and biology and is loosely
characterized by two somewhat converse foci:(i) exploiting nanomaterials (NMs) to …

Biosensing with luminescent semiconductor quantum dots

KE Sapsford, T Pons, IL Medintz, H Mattoussi - Sensors, 2006 - mdpi.com
Luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots (QDs) are a recently developed
class of nanomaterial whose unique photophysical properties are helping to create a new …

Field-effect sensors for virus detection: From Ebola to SARS-CoV-2 and plant viral enhancers

A Poghossian, M Jablonski, D Molinnus… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel human infectious disease provoked by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Currently, no specific …

Core-controlled polymorphism in virus-like particles

J Sun, C DuFort, MC Daniel, A Murali… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
This study concerns the self-assembly of virus-like particles (VLPs) composed of an
icosahedral virus protein coat encapsulating a functionalized spherical nanoparticle core …

Intravital imaging of embryonic and tumor neovasculature using viral nanoparticles

HS Leong, NF Steinmetz, A Ablack, G Destito… - Nature protocols, 2010 - nature.com
Viral nanoparticles are a novel class of biomolecular agents that take advantage of the
natural circulatory and targeting properties of viruses to allow the development of …