A supramolecular assembly based on an engineered hemoprotein exhibiting a thermal stimulus-driven conversion to a new distinct supramolecular structure
Oohora, K.; Onuma, Y.; Tanaka, Y.; Onoda, A.; Hayashi, T.
Chemical Communications 53(51): 6879-6882
2017
ISSN/ISBN: 1364-548X
PMID: 28604909
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc02678a
Accession: 059419672
Supramolecular assembly of an engineered hemoprotein with an externally-attached heme moiety via an azobenzene or stilbene linker demonstrates drastic structural transitions between two distinct forms: the thermodynamically stable fiber-type assembly and the kinetically trapped metastable micelle-type assembly induced by transient thermal stimulus.