Colloidal stability versus self-assembly of nanoparticles controlled by coiled-coil protein interactions.

Soft Matter

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 312 Church St. SE, 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.

Published: September 2019

Orientational discrimination of biomolecular recognition is exploited here as a molecular engineering tool to regulate nanoparticle self-assembly or stability. Nanoparticles are conjugated with the heterodimerizing coiled-coils, A and B, which associate in parallel orientation. Simply flipping the orientation of one coiled-coil results in either self-assembling or colloidally stable nanoparticles.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6760969PMC
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