Supercharging enables organized assembly of synthetic biomolecules.
Simon, A.J., Zhou, Y., Ramasubramani, V., Glaser, J., Pothukuchy, A., Gollihar, J., Gerberich, J.C., Leggere, J.C., Morrow, B.R., Jung, C., Glotzer, S.C., Taylor, D.W., Ellington, A.D.(2019) Nat Chem 11: 204-212
- PubMed: 30643229 
- DOI: 10.1038/s41557-018-0196-3
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6MDR - PubMed Abstract: 
Symmetrical protein oligomers are ubiquitous in biological systems and perform key structural and regulatory functions. However, there are few methods for constructing such oligomers. Here we have engineered completely synthetic, symmetrical oligomers by combining pairs of oppositely supercharged variants of a normally monomeric model protein through a strategy we term 'supercharged protein assembly' (SuPrA) ...