Issue 5, 2014
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Chemical Communications

Transmembrane molecular transport through nanopores formed by protein nanotubes†

Baiju G. Nair,a   Yukiko Nakano,a   Yoshihiro Ito*ab  and  Hiroshi Abe*abcd  

* Corresponding authors

a Nano Medical Engineering Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
E-mail: h-abe@pharm.hokudai.ac.jp, y-ito@riken.jp

b Emergent Bioengineering Materials Research Team, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

c Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Kita-12, Nishi-6, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan

d PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 4-1-8, Honcho, Kawaguchi, Saitama 332-0012, Japan

Abstract

Protein nanotubes formed by layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly can penetrate cells and act as nanopores for direct transmembrane delivery of chemical compounds.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC45907A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
02 Aug 2013
Accepted
30 Oct 2013
First published
04 Nov 2013

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 602-604

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B. G. Nair, Y. Nakano, Y. Ito and H. Abe, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 602 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45907A

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