The cell's dynamic skeleton, a tightly regulated network of protein fibres, continues to provide inspiration for the design of synthetic nanostructures. Genetic engineering has now been used to encode non-biological functionality within these structures.
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Ulijn, R., Caponi, PF. Rewiring nanostructures. Nature Chem 2, 521–523 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.714
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