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SUBMITTER: Pavone V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4013780 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pavone Vincenzo V Zhang Shao-Qing SQ Merlino Antonello A Lombardi Angela A Wu Yibing Y DeGrado William F WF
Nature communications 20140407
Foldamers provide an attractive medium to test the mechanisms by which biological macromolecules fold into complex three-dimensional structures, and ultimately to design novel protein-like architectures with properties unprecedented in nature. Here, we describe a large cage-like structure formed from an amphiphilic arylamide foldamer crystallized from aqueous solution. Forty-eight copies of the foldamer assemble into a 5-nm cage-like structure, an omnitruncated octahedron filled with well-ordere ...[more]