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Although nanostructures of ever-increasing complexity are being built using principles of DNA 'origami', protein molecules have been underexploited. Sinclair et al. now describe a general strategy to design ordered protein materials. One- and two-dimensional protein lattices can be constructed by the fusion of peptide chains derived from multisubunit protein complexes with matching rotational symmetry.
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Protein origami. Nat Methods 8, 791 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1727
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1727