Construction of Robust Bio-nanotubes using the Controlled Self-Assembly of Component Proteins of Bacteriophage T4
Construction of Robust Bio-nanotubes using the Controlled Self-Assembly of Component Proteins of Bacteriophage T4
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DOI:
10.1002/smll.201000772
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发表时间:
2010-09-06
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13.3
通讯作者:
Ueno, Takafumi
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作者:
Yokoi, Norihiko;Inaba, Hiroshi;Ueno, Takafumi
Norihiko Yokoi, Hiroshi Inaba, Makoto Terauchi, Adam Z. Stieg, Nusrat JM Sanghamitra, Tomomi Koshiyama, Katsuhide Yutani, Shuji Kanamaru, Fumio Arisaka, Tatsuo Hikage, Atsuo Suzuki, Takashi Yamane, James K. Gimzewski, Yoshihito Watanabe, Susumu Kitagawa, and Takafumi Ueno* of functional molecules at appropriate sites. Thus, it has remained challenging to obtain tube structures with high stability and well-defined nanoscale lengths for properly aligning synthetic molecules on the surfaces of the nanotubes. The β-helical protein motif holds promise as a candidate to overcome these problems. This motif occurs predominantly in native tubular structural proteins such as antifreeze proteins, prions, and viruses.[24–26] β-helical structures have been artificially mimicked using short or polymer-conjugated peptides because the motif typically consists of highly repeated fragments with a short period that can be easily manipulated.[27, 28] This motif is also found in a component protein of bacteriophage T4, one of the most common bio-supramolecules, which consists of more than 40 component proteins (Scheme 1).[29] The triple-stranded β-helical assembly is composed of three subunits of gene product 5 ((gp5) 3). This assembly is located on the base plate of bacteriophage T4, and functions as a needle for penetrating the surface membrane of the E. coli host organism.[29, 30] In view of its supramolecular