Light harvesting antenna on an amyloid scaffold.
A pigment array has been constructed within a paracrystalline amyloid nanotube and Förster energy transfer along the nanotube surface has been demonstrated to self-assembled acceptor dyes.
Liang
Yan
Y
Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Guo
Peng
P
Pingali
Sai Venkatesh
SV
Pabit
Suzette
S
Thiyagarajan
Pappannan
P
Berland
Keith M
KM
Lynn
David G
DG
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; D008027:Light; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D043942:Nanotubes; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
D016229:Amyloid beta-Peptides