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Coiled coils unspring protein origami

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Self-assembling sequences of protein coiled coils create polyhedral nanostructures for advanced applications in biomedicine, chemistry and materials science.

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Figure 1: Computational and experimental framework for coiled-coil protein origami.

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Hura, G., Tainer, J. Coiled coils unspring protein origami. Nat Biotechnol 35, 1044–1045 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.4003

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