Issue 39, 2016

Design of a confined environment using protein cages and crystals for the development of biohybrid materials

Abstract

There is growing interest in the design of protein assemblies for use in materials science and bionanotechnology. Protein assemblies, such as cages and crystalline protein structures, provide confined chemical environments that allow immobilization of metal complexes, nanomaterials, and proteins by metal coordination, assembly/disassembly reactions, genetic manipulation and crystallization methods. Protein assembly composites can be used to prepare hybrid materials with catalytic, magnetic and optical properties for cellular applications due to their high stability, solubility and biocompatibility. In this feature article, we focus on the recent development of ferritin as the most promising molecular template protein cage and in vivo and in vitro engineering of protein crystals as solid protein materials with functional properties.

Graphical abstract: Design of a confined environment using protein cages and crystals for the development of biohybrid materials

Article information

Article type
Feature Article
Submitted
13 Feb 2016
Accepted
21 Mar 2016
First published
21 Mar 2016
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 6496-6512

Design of a confined environment using protein cages and crystals for the development of biohybrid materials

S. Abe, B. Maity and T. Ueno, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 6496 DOI: 10.1039/C6CC01355D

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