Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Recent developments in the construction and applications of platinum-based metallacycles and metallacages via coordination

Y Sun, C Chen, J Liu, PJ Stang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Coordination-driven suprastructures have attracted much interest due to their unique
properties. Among these structures, platinum-based architectures have been broadly …

Hierarchical materials from high information content macromolecular building blocks: construction, dynamic interventions, and prediction

L Shao, J Ma, JL Prelesnik, Y Zhou, M Nguyen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Hierarchical materials that exhibit order over multiple length scales are ubiquitous in nature.
Because hierarchy gives rise to unique properties and functions, many have sought …

freud: A software suite for high throughput analysis of particle simulation data

V Ramasubramani, BD Dice, ES Harper… - Computer Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
The freud Python package is a library for analyzing simulation data. Written with modern
simulation and data analysis workflows in mind, freud provides a Python interface to fast …

Precise assembly of proteins and carbohydrates for next-generation biomaterials

L Li, G Chen - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
The complexity and diversity of biomacromolecules make them a unique class of building
blocks for generating precise assemblies. They are particularly available to a new …

Hierarchical self‐assembly of discrete metal–organic cages into supramolecular nanoparticles for intracellular protein delivery

J Liu, T Luo, Y Xue, L Mao, PJ Stang… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Hierarchical self‐assembly (HAS) is a powerful approach to create supramolecular
nanostructures for biomedical applications. This potency, however, is generally challenged …

Programmed spatial organization of biomacromolecules into discrete, coacervate-based protocells

WJ Altenburg, NA Yewdall, DFM Vervoort… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The cell cytosol is crowded with high concentrations of many different biomacromolecules,
which is difficult to mimic in bottom-up synthetic cell research and limits the functionality of …

Colloidal fibers and rings by cooperative assembly

JS Oh, S Lee, SC Glotzer, GR Yi, DJ Pine - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Janus colloids with one attractive patch on an otherwise repulsive particle surface serve as
model systems to explore structure formation of particles with chemically heterogeneous …

Supercharged proteins and polypeptides

C Ma, A Malessa, AJ Boersma, K Liu… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Electrostatic interactions play a vital role in nature. Biomacromolecules such as proteins are
orchestrated by electrostatics, among other intermolecular forces, to assemble and organize …

Protein assemblies: nature-inspired and designed nanostructures

IW Hamley - Biomacromolecules, 2019 - ACS Publications
Ordered protein assemblies are attracting interest as next-generation biomaterials with a
remarkable range of structural and functional properties, leading to potential applications in …