title: Allostery in molecular self-assemblies: metal ions triggered self-assembly and emissions of terthiophene.
abstract: Binding of metal ions to the head of a coordinating amphiphile TTC4L substantially changes the emission color of the terthiophene group attached to the chain end via a conformation triggered self-assembly. This is in analogy with the allostery of proteins in which binding a ligand to one site may affect its performance at another site through conformational change.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institution College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China. yunyan@pku.edu.cn jbhuang@pku.edu.cn.
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authors.lastname: Liu
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