title: Fabrication of massive sheets of single layer patterned arrays using lipid directed reengineered phi29 motor dodecamer.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Jinchuan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Oana
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Coban
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schoen
authors.forename: Joseph Che-Yen
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: R Holland
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Peixuan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Guo
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D014764:Viral Proteins