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Review
. 2004 Aug;14(4):480-6.
doi: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.06.006.

Self-assembling peptides and proteins for nanotechnological applications

Karthikan Rajagopal  1 , Joel P Schneider
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Self-assembling peptides and proteins for nanotechnological applications

Karthikan Rajagopal et al. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 2004 Aug.

Abstract

Photolithography enables the precise construction of nanodevices in two-dimensional formats. However, self-assembly of designed molecules serves as an alternative for the construction of three-dimensional nanoscale systems and is particularly appealing in that material properties can potentially be engineered at the molecular level. Peptides and proteins hold promise as building blocks for self-assembled systems because of their exquisite three-dimensional structures and evolutionarily fine-tuned functions.

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