Fabrication of massive sheets of single layer patterned arrays using lipid directed reengineered phi29 motor dodecamer.
The bottom-up assembly of patterned arrays is an exciting and important area in current nanotechnology. Arrays can be engineered to serve as components in chips for a virtually inexhaustible list of applications ranging from disease diagnosis to ultra-high-density data storage. Phi29 motor dodecamer has been reported to form elegant multilayer tetragonal arrays. However, multilayer protein arrays are of limited use for nanotechnological applications which demand nanoreplica or coating technologies. The ability to produce a single layer array of biological structures with high replication fidelity represents a significant advance in the area of nanomimetics. In this paper, we report on the assembly of single layer sheets of reengineered phi29 motor dodecamer. A thin lipid monolayer was used to direct the assembly of massive sheets of single layer patterned arrays of the reengineered motor dodecamer. Uniform, clean and highly ordered arrays were constructed as shown by both transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy imaging.
Xiao
Feng
F
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
Sun
Jinchuan
J
Coban
Oana
O
Schoen
Peter
P
Wang
Joseph Che-Yen
JC
Cheng
R Holland
RH
Guo
Peixuan
P
D001435:Bacteriophages / Q000737:chemistry*; D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D018625:Microscopy, Atomic Force / Q000379:methods; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission / Q000379:methods; D036103:Nanotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D040081:Protein Array Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D015202:Protein Engineering; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D014764:Viral Proteins / Q000737:chemistry
D008055:Lipids; D014764:Viral Proteins