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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Uchida, Masaki
• Qazi, Shefah
• Edwards, Ethan
• Douglas, Trevor

Titel

Use of protein cages as a template for confined synthesis of inorganic and organic nanoparticles

Ist Teil von

• Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2015, Vol.1252, p.17

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Protein cages are hollow spherical proteins assembled from a defined number of subunits. Because they are extremely homogeneous in size and structure, their interior cavities can serve as ideal templates to encapsulate and synthesize well-defined nanoparticles. Here, we describe the exemplary synthesis of a hard and a soft material in two representative protein cages, i.e., magnetite nanoparticles in ferritin and a poly(2-aminoethyl)methacrylate inside a viral capsid derived from the bacteriophage P22.