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Self-Assembly of a Tetrahedral Lectin into Predesigned Diamondlike Protein Crystals
1Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978 (Israel).
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|August 24, 1999
Abstract:
Binding sites analogous to those of sp(3) carbon are presented by concanavalin A. This lectin has now been cross-linked with a bismannopyranoside which contains the C(2) spacer required to form the computer-modeled diamondlike three-dimensional protein lattice shown in the picture.