Synthetic oligomers could potentially expand beyond the functions offered by proteins and nucleic acids. However, this requires precise methods for controlling their folding and self-assembly. Now, it is shown that two drastically different supramolecular architectures can be fabricated from closely related sequences using a single biomimetic scaffold.
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Horne, W. Biomimetic and built to order. Nature Chem 7, 858–859 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2385
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