Bionanotechnology Proteins to Nanodevices

Bionanotechnology is the key integrative technology of the 21st century and aims to use the knowledge, gathered from the natural construction of cellular systems, for the advancement of science and engineering. Investigating the topology and communication

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VR: To Bhanu, Priyanka, Varun, Suraj, Sandeep

BIONANOTECHNOLOGY Proteins to Nanodevices

Edited by

V. Renugopalakrishnan Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA and

Randolph V. Lewis University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 1-4020-4219-1 (HB) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-4219-5 (HB) ISBN-10 1-4020-4375-9 (e-book) ISBN-13 978-1-4020-4375-8 (e-book)

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Contents

Preface

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Proteins to Nanodevices

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Bionanotechnology: Proteins to Nanodevices Chapter 1: DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR SELF-ASSEMBLING DEVICES FROM MACROMOLECULES F. Raymond Salemme Chapter 2: METALLOPROTEIN-BASED ELECTRONIC NANODEVICES Ross Rinaldi, Giuseppe Maruccio, Adriana Biasco, Pier Paolo Pompa, Alessandro Bramanti, Valentina Arima, Paolo Visconti, Stefano D’amico, Eliana D’Amonne, and Roberto Cingolani

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Chapter 3: MECHANICAL CONSEQUENCES OF BIOMOLECULAR GRADIENTS IN BYSSAL THREADS J. Herbert Waite, James C. Weaver, and Eleonora Vaccaro

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Chapter 4: BACTERIORHODOPSIN-BASED 3D OPTICAL MEMORY B. Xi, Kevin J. Wise, Jeffrey A. Stuart, and Robert R. Birge

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Chapter 5: SPIDER SILK PRODUCTION Randolph V.Lewis Chapter 6: A PROJECTION DISPLAY BASED ON A BACTERIORHODOPSIN THIN FILM L. Lindvold and H. Lausen Chapter 7: THE ROLE OF COLLAGEN IN ENERGY STORAGE AND DISSIPATION IN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX Frederick H. Silver, Joseph W. Freeman, Istvan Horvath, and Gino Bradica Chapter 8: ENHANCEMENT OF PROTEIN THERMAL STABILITY: TOWARD THE DESIGN OF ROBUST PROTEINS FOR BIONANOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS V. Renugopalakrishnan, X. Wei, G. Narasimhan, C. S. Verma, Pingzuo Li, and A. Anumanthan Chapter 9: DECIPHERING ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES FOR THE DESIGN OF PROTEIN-BASED NANOMACHINES Dan W. Urry Chapter 10: BIOPROCESSING OF SILK PROTEINS-CONTROLLING ASSEMBLY Hyoung-Joon Jin, Jaehyung Park, Regina Valluzi, Ung-Jin Kim, Peggy Cebe, and David L. Kaplan Chapter 11: NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY ENABLES NEW OPPORTUNITIES IN MATERIAL SCIENCES: BACTERIORHODOPSIN AS A FIRST EXAMPLE Norbert Hampp Chapter 12: SYNTHETIC PHOTOREFRACTIVE AND PHOTOCHROMIC MATERIALS AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH BACTERIORHODOPSIN MUTANTS FOR OPTICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING Andrzej Miniewicz, V. Renugopalakrishnan

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Contents Chapter 13: SUBMONOLAYER MEAS