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Adaptations of guest and host in expanded self-assembled capsules.

ABSTRACT: Reversible encapsulation complexes create spaces where two or more molecules can be temporarily isolated. When the mobility of encapsulated molecules is restricted, different arrangements in space are possible, and new forms of isomerism ("social isomerism") are created: the orientation of one encapsulated molecule influences that of the other in the confined space. Expansion of a capsule's length is possible through addition of small-molecule spacer elements. The expanded capsules have dimensions that permit the observation of social isomerism of two identical guests, and they adopt arrangements that properly fill the host's space. The host also can adapt to longer guests by incorporating additional spacers, much as protein modules are added to a viral capsid in response to larger genomes. Arachidonic and related fatty acid derivatives act in this way to induce the assembly of further extended capsules having sufficient length to accommodate them.

SUBMITTER: Ajami D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2042151 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Adaptations of guest and host in expanded self-assembled capsules.

Ajami Dariush D Rebek Julius J

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20071002 41

Reversible encapsulation complexes create spaces where two or more molecules can be temporarily isolated. When the mobility of encapsulated molecules is restricted, different arrangements in space are possible, and new forms of isomerism ("social isomerism") are created: the orientation of one encapsulated molecule influences that of the other in the confined space. Expansion of a capsule's length is possible through addition of small-molecule spacer elements. The expanded capsules have dimensio ...[more]

PMID: 17911246

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