Many biomolecules undergo liquid–liquid phase separation to form liquid-like condensates
that mediate diverse cellular functions,. Autophagy is able to degrade such condensates …

Highlights•Protein cages are nanoscale containers with a multitude of potential uses and are
widely found in nature.•The ability to produce artificial protein cages offers the prospect of …

Highlights•Structural analysis of icosahedral and non-icosahedral viral capsids using
advanced cryo-electron microscopy techniques.•Advances in subtomogram averaging have …

Symmetrical protein cages have evolved to fulfil diverse roles in nature, including
compartmentalization and cargo delivery, and have inspired synthetic biologists to create …

Engineered protein cages are promising tools that can be customized for applications in
medicine and nanotechnology. A major challenge is developing a straightforward strategy …

Bacterial microcompartments (BMCs) are proteinaceous organelles widespread among
bacterial phyla. They compartmentalize enzymes within a selectively permeable shell and …

Artificial protein cages have potential as programmable, protective carriers of fragile
macromolecules to cells. While natural cages and VLPs have been extensively exploited …

Artificial protein cages have great potential in a number of areas including cargo capture
and delivery and as artificial vaccines. Here, we investigate an artificial protein cage whose …

Background Many biological processes in a living cell are consequences of sequential and
hierarchical dynamic events of biological macromolecules such as molecular interactions …

Photoresponsive supramolecular polymers have a major potential for applications in
responsive materials that are externally triggered by light with spatio‐temporal control of …