Snap Together Protein Filaments (IMAGE)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

Snap Together Protein Filaments

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These newly designed protein components snap together spontaneously into filaments. The designed proteins are relatively small, made up of about only 180 to 200 amino acids and measure only about on nanometer in length, but assemble into stable filaments more than 10,000 nanometers long. The filaments can also be tinkered with to either grow or disassemble.

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Institute for Protein Design/UW Medicine

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