title: Protein Assembly: Versatile Approaches to Construct Highly Ordered Nanostructures.
abstract: Nature endows life with a wide variety of sophisticated, synergistic, and highly functional protein assemblies. Following Nature's inspiration to assemble protein building blocks into exquisite nanostructures is emerging as a fascinating research field. Dictating protein assembly to obtain highly ordered nanostructures and sophisticated functions not only provides a powerful tool to understand the natural protein assembly process but also offers access to advanced biomaterials. Over the past couple of decades, the field of protein assembly has undergone unexpected and rapid developments, and various innovative strategies have been proposed. This Review outlines recent advances in the field of protein assembly and summarizes several strategies, including biotechnological strategies, chemical strategies, and combinations of these approaches, for manipulating proteins to self-assemble into desired nanostructures. The emergent applications of protein assemblies as versatile platforms to design a wide variety of attractive functional materials with improved performances have also been discussed. The goal of this Review is to highlight the importance of this highly interdisciplinary field and to promote its growth in a diverse variety of research fields ranging from nanoscience and material science to synthetic biology.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China.
authors: Quan
authors: Q
authors: Luo
authors: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China.
authors: Chunxi
authors: C
authors: Hou
authors: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China.
authors: Yushi
authors: Y
authors: Bai
authors: State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau , Taipa, Macau SAR 999078, China.
authors: Ruibing
authors: R
authors: Wang
authors: State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, College of Chemistry, Jilin University , 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China.
authors: Junqiu
authors: J
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D060326:Chemistry Techniques, Synthetic / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D008024:Ligands; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000737:chemistry; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D055503:Protein Multimerization; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA