Redirecting the Coat Protein of a Spherical Virus to Assemble into Tubular Nanostructures
- 3 February 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Vol. 128 (8), 2538-2539
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ja056656f
Abstract
We take advantage of the self-assembly properties of the coat protein of a spherical virus to form uniform tubular nanostructures. Critical to redirecting assembly are the weak interprotein association energy inherent to virus assembly and the relatively rigid nature of the double-stranded DNA scaffold at their core.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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