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SUBMITTER: Yang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5481833 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Shenyu S Yan Yun Y Huang Jianbin J Petukhov Andrei V AV Kroon-Batenburg Loes M J LMJ Drechsler Markus M Zhou Chengcheng C Tu Mei M Granick Steve S Jiang Lingxiang L
Nature communications 20170620
Proteins can readily assemble into rigid, crystalline and functional structures such as viral capsids and bacterial compartments. Despite ongoing advances, it is still a fundamental challenge to design and synthesize protein-mimetic molecules to form crystalline structures. Here we report the lattice self-assembly of cyclodextrin complexes into a variety of capsid-like structures such as lamellae, helical tubes and hollow rhombic dodecahedra. The dodecahedral morphology has not hitherto been obs ...[more]