New cages to trap molecules push boundaries of protein design
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Protein design is a popular and rapidly growing field, with scientists engineering novel protein cages—capsule-like nanostructures for purposes such as gene therapy and targeted drug delivery. Many of these structures fashioned in the lab, while perhaps aesthetically pleasing to chemists, have holes too big to trap a target molecule or don't open on command, limiting their functional scope.