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SUBMITTER: Moll D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC137473 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Moll Dieter D Huber Carina C Schlegel Birgit B Pum Dietmar D Sleytr Uwe B UB Sára Margit M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021104 23
Biomolecular self-assembly can be used as a powerful tool for nanoscale engineering. In this paper, we describe the development of building blocks for nanobiotechnology, which are based on the fusion of streptavidin to a crystalline bacterial cell surface layer (S-layer) protein with the inherent ability to self-assemble into a monomolecular protein lattice. The fusion proteins and streptavidin were produced independently in Escherichia coli, isolated, and mixed to refold and purify heterotetram ...[more]