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Design of a flexible aromatic gate to immobilize C60 in a ferritin cage

Taiga Suzuki, ORCID logo a   Yuki Hishikawa, ORCID logo a   Basudev Maity,a   Yumie Nishiyama,b   Kazunori Motai,b   Yuhei Hayamizu, ORCID logo b   Satoshi Abec  and  Takafumi Ueno ORCID logo *ad  

* Corresponding authors

a School of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, Nagatsuta-cho 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan
E-mail: ueno.t.bb33@m.isct.ac.jp

b School of Material Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, 2-12-1, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan

c School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University, 1-5 Hangi-cho, Shimogamo, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8522, Japan

d Research Center for Autonomous Systems Materialogy (ASMat), Institute of Integrated Research, Institute of Science Tokyo, Nagatsuta-cho 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan

Abstract

We report a crystal structure of a ferritin cage immobilizing pristine fullerene (C60). Mutational studies and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations reveal that a flexible aromatic gate system is effective for C60 immobilization.

Graphical abstract: Design of a flexible aromatic gate to immobilize C60 in a ferritin cage

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC02237E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Apr 2026
Accepted
14 May 2026
First published
18 May 2026
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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Design of a flexible aromatic gate to immobilize C60 in a ferritin cage

T. Suzuki, Y. Hishikawa, B. Maity, Y. Nishiyama, K. Motai, Y. Hayamizu, S. Abe and T. Ueno, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CC02237E

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