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Self-Assembling Protein Systems: A Model for Materials Science

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Protein-Based Materials

Part of the book series: Bioengineering of Materials ((BOM))

Abstract

Spontaneous organization and assembly is an almost universal component of complex natural systems and is considered to be the key factor in the emergence of biological organisms over three billion years ago. At the earliest stages of evolution, individual chemical groups would transiently come together to catalyze reactions; later, an evolutionary explosion occurred when organisms linked the needed functional groups together in proteins to improve the efficiency of these processes. Today organisms rely almost exclusively on proteins to accomplish such complex tasks as catalysis, synthesis of intermediates, energy transduction, and replication of DNA. Because of this, considerable effort has been directed toward understanding how the individual components interact to catalyze reactions, recognize and respond to chemical messengers, regulate gene expression in cells, and spontaneously assemble into complex structural components.

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  1. RD & E Center, U.S. Army Natick, 01760-5020, Natick, MA, USA

    Kevin McGrath

  2. Biotechnology Center Department of Chemical Engineering, Tufts University, 02155, Medford, MA, USA

    David Kaplan

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McGrath, K.P., Butler, M.M. (1997). Self-Assembling Protein Systems: A Model for Materials Science. In: McGrath, K., Kaplan, D. (eds) Protein-Based Materials. Bioengineering of Materials. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4094-5_8

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