Bioengineering team creates self-forming tetrahedron protein
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —A combined team of researchers from the U.S. and Slovenia has succeeded in creating "origami" type proteins that assemble themselves into three dimensional shapes. As a proof of concept, the team created, as they describe in their paper published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, a protein with coils that self-formed a true three dimensional tetrahedron.