The Pizza protein as a starting point for protein nanotubes and helical fibrils KU Leuven
Proteins can be considered as nature’s most diverse building blocks which are involved in the various essential processes that constitute life. However, in the field of synthetic biochemistry and bio-nanotechnology, DNA has been the most successful building block so far to create a variety of shapes and applications, such as diagnosis and drug delivery systems. The preference of DNA over protein building blocks arose due to the fact that the ...