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Design of a flexible aromatic gate to immobilize C60 in a ferritin cage
Taiga Suzuki1, Yuki Hishikawa1, Basudev Maity1
1School of Life Science and Technology, Institute of Science Tokyo, Nagatsuta-cho 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan. ueno.t.bb33@m.isct.ac.jp.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 29, 2026
Abstract:
We report a crystal structure of a ferritin cage immobilizing pristine fullerene (C60). Mutational studies and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations reveal that a flexible aromatic gate system is effective for C60 immobilization.
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