不平衡合成和组装混合无机蛋白纳米结构使用工程DNA结合蛋白质的合成和组装

Haixia Dai1, Woo-Seok Choe, Corrine K Thai

  • 1Departments of Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Microbiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1750, USA.

概括

研究人员设计了一种蛋白质,在非平衡条件下控制无机纳米粒子的形成. 这种蛋白质可以合成氧化铜 (Cu2O) 纳米粒子,模仿生物硬组织组装.

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