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 …

Protein assembly: versatile approaches to construct highly ordered nanostructures

Q Luo, C Hou, Y Bai, R Wang, J Liu - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional
protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into …

Supramolecular chemistry targeting proteins

S van Dun, C Ottmann, LG Milroy… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The specific recognition of protein surface elements is a fundamental challenge in the life
sciences. New developments in this field will form the basis of advanced therapeutic …

Nanostructures based on protein self-assembly: From hierarchical construction to bioinspired materials

H Sun, Q Luo, C Hou, J Liu - Nano Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Sophisticated protein self-assemblies have attracted great scientific interests in recent few
decades due to their various potential applications in substance/signal transmission …

Functional protein nanostructures: a chemical toolbox

SL Kuan, FRG Bergamini, T Weil - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nature has evolved an optimal synthetic factory in the form of translational and
posttranslational processes by which millions of proteins with defined primary sequences …

Cucurbit [8] uril‐Based Polymers and Polymer Materials

H Zou, J Liu, Y Li, X Li, X Wang - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Cucurbit [8] uril (CB [8]) is unique and notable in the cucurbit [n] uril family, since it
has a relatively large cavity and thus is able to simultaneously accommodate two guest …

Hierarchical self-assembly of proteins through rationally designed supramolecular interfaces

H Sun, Y Li, S Yu, J Liu - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
With the increasing advances in the basic understanding of pathogenesis mechanism and
fabrication of advanced biological materials, protein nanomaterials are being developed for …

Template-free construction of highly ordered monolayered fluorescent protein nanosheets: a bioinspired artificial light-harvesting system

X Li, S Qiao, L Zhao, S Liu, F Li, F Yang, Q Luo… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Using biological materials for light-harvesting applications has attracted considerable
attention in recent years. Such materials provide excellent environmental compatibility and …

Encoding hierarchical assembly pathways of proteins with DNA

OG Hayes, BE Partridge… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The structural and functional diversity of materials in nature depends on the controlled
assembly of discrete building blocks into complex architectures via specific, multistep …

Supramolecular control over split‐luciferase complementation

RPG Bosmans, JM Briels, LG Milroy… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular split‐enzyme complementation restores enzymatic activity and allows for on–
off switching. Split‐luciferase fragment pairs were provided with an N‐terminal FGG …