Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Intracellular artificial supramolecules based on de novo designed Y15 peptides

  • Takayuki Miki,
  • Taichi Nakai,
  • Masahiro Hashimoto,
  • Keigo Kajiwara,
  • Hiroshi Tsutsumi,
  • Hisakazu Mihara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23794-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Self-assembling peptides (SAPs) can be used to build biomaterials, but genetically encoded SAPs have rarely been used as building blocks in cells. Here, the authors design a SAP that can be genetically fused to target proteins to induce their intracellular clustering and modulate their signaling functions.