Researchers described for the first time the structure of a bifunctional protein, called CcsBA, that transports heme and attaches it to cytochromes. The study captured two conformational states of ...

A new study shows how one of the cell's most important energy-producing machines is built. Researchers at Karolinska ...

Tailed bacteriophages and herpesviruses translocate their genome into and out of their capsid (or ‘head’) through a 12-fold symmetric portal protein assembly (or simply ‘portal’), located at a special ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Molecular self-assembly, which refers to the spontaneous assembly of precursor molecules to form nanostructured objects 1, is controlled by the intrinsic properties of the molecules and their ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

Design-for-assembly (DFA) and design-for-manufacture (DFM) techniques can be applied to products assembled manually or automatically or manufactured by specific techniques, such as machining, die ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The use of spontaneous self-assembly as a lithography- and external field-free means to construct well-ordered, often intriguing structures has received much attention for its ...