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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 111, Issue 8, Pages 2897-2902Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319866111
Keywords
protein self-assembly; supramolecular coordination chemistry; nanomaterials; biomaterials; inorganic nanoparticles
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- US Department of Energy Division of Materials Sciences, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-FG02-10ER46677]
- National Institutes of Health [R37 GM-033050]
- Agouron Foundation
- University of California, San Diego
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The designed assembly of proteins into well-defined supramolecular architectures not only tests our understanding of protein-protein interactions, but it also provides an opportunity to tailor materials with new physical and chemical properties. Previously, we described that RIDC3, a designed variant of the monomeric electron transfer protein cytochrome cb(562), could self-assemble through Zn2+ coordination into uniform 1D nanotubes or 2D arrays with crystalline order. Here we show that these 1D and 2D RIDC3 assemblies display very high chemical stabilities owing to their metal-mediated frameworks, maintaining their structural order in >= 90% (vol/vol) of several polar organic solvents including tetrahydrofuran (THF) and isopropanol (iPrOH). In contrast, the unassembled RIDC3 monomers denature in similar to 30% THF and 50% iPrOH, indicating that metal-mediated self-assembly also leads to considerable stabilization of the individual building blocks. The 1D and 2D RIDC3 assemblies are highly thermostable as well, remaining intact at up to similar to 70 degrees C and similar to 90 degrees C, respectively. The 1D nanotubes cleanly convert into the 2D arrays on heating above 70 degrees C, a rare example of a thermal crystalline-to-crystalline conversion in a bio-molecular assembly. Finally, we demonstrate that the Zn-directed RIDC3 assemblies can be used to spatiotemporally control the templated growth of small Pt-0 nanocrystals. This emergent function is enabled by and absolutely dependent on both the supramolecular assembly of RIDC3 molecules (to form a periodically organized structural template) and their innate redox activities (to direct Pt2+ reduction).
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