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Nanoscale Objects with Impossible Geometry

2016/20/W/NZ1/00095

Keywords:

proteins protein structure cage protein artificial capsid drug delivery system symmetry breaking molecular robotics protein symmetry

Descriptors:

  • NZ3_1: Cell biology
  • NZ1_4: Structural biology
  • NZ1_9: Biotechnology

Panel:

NZ1 - Molecular biology, structural biology, biotechnology: molecular biology, structural biology, biotechnology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Małopolskie Centrum Biotechnologii Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Jonathan Heddle 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 12

Call: SYMFONIA 4 - announced on 2015-12-15

Amount awarded: 6 596 736 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-11-07

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-04-06

Project duration:: 53 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Project description

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Note - project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. FPLC (500 000 PLN)
  2. Komputer/laptop dla Kierownika Projektu.
  3. Nóż diamentowy.
  4. System obrazowania (170 590 PLN)
  5. Zestaw do natywnej elektroforezy białek.
  6. Duża wirówka z rotorami.
  7. FPLC.
  8. Licencja na oprogramowanie do mikroskopu elektronowego.
  9. Licencja programu do modelowania molekularnego AMBER.
  10. Rotor R2 (3 888 PLN)
  11. Zamrażarka niskotemperaturowa (-80 st. C).
  12. Drukarka 3D (50 000 PLN)
  13. Dysk wewnętrzny (2 890 PLN)
  14. Inkubator z wytrząsaniem i chłodzeniem.
  15. Inkubator z wytrząsarką.
  16. Komputer do obliczeń, modelowania molekularnego oraz analizy danych z cryo-EM.
  17. Komputer przenośny (laptop).
  18. Laptopy dla asystentów naukowych.
  19. Lodówka laboratoryjna/szafa chłodnicza.
  20. Mała nablatowa wirówka.
  21. QCM (200 000 PLN)
  22. Serwer.
  23. Spektrofotometr (do pomiarów mikro objętości próbek) (40 000 PLN)
  24. Wyposażenie do elektroforezy poziomej na żelach agarozowych.
  25. Dysk zewnętrzny (611 PLN)
  26. Elektroniczny pipetor.
  27. Wirówka z chłodzeniem.
  28. Wyposażenie do elektroforezy PAGE.
  29. Zestawy komputerowe do modelowania molekularnego wraz z wyposażeniem.
  30. syntezator peptydów (500 000 PLN)
  31. Aparat do gwałtownego zamrażania próbek dla Cryo-em (250 000 PLN)
  32. Mieszadła magnetyczne.
  33. Termocykler gradientowy wraz z termocyklerem służebnym (2 szt. w zestawie).
  34. VitMaster do szybkiego zamrażania próbek (45 608 PLN)
  35. Wortex.
  36. pH-metr.
  37. Łaźnia wodna.
  38. Średnia, nablatowa wirówka laboratoryjna z rotorami.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (9)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (1)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. An ultra-stable gold-coordinated protein cage displaying reversible assembly
    Authors:
    Malay Ali D., Miyazaki Naoyuki, Biela Artur, Chakraborti Soumyananda, Majsterkiewicz Karolina , Stupka Izabela, Kaplan Craig S., Kowalczyk Agnieszka , Piette Bernard M. A. G., Hochberg Georg K. A., Wu Di, Wróbel Tomasz, Fineberg Adam, Kushwah Manish S., Kelemen Mitja, Vavpetič Primož, Pelicon Primož, Kukura Philipp, Benesch Justin L. P., Iwasaki Kenji, Heddle Jonathan Dr hab. Jonathan Heddle
    Academic press:
    Nature (rok: 2019, tom: 569, strony: 438-442), Wydawca: Nature Publishing Group
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1038/s41586-019-1185-4 - link to the publication
  2. Artificial Protein Cage Delivers Active Protein Cargos to the Cell Interior
    Authors:
    Naskalska, A., Borzęcka-Solarz, K., Różycki, J., Stupka, I., Bochenek, M., Pyza, E., Heddle, J. G
    Academic press:
    Biomacromolecules (rok: 2021, tom: 22, strony: 4146−4154), Wydawca: The American Chemical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00630 - link to the publication
  3. Artificial Protein Cage with Unusual Geometry and Regularly Embedded Gold Nanoparticles
    Authors:
    Majsterkiewicz, K., Biela, A.P., Maity, S., Sharma, M., Piette, B.M.A.G., Kowalczyk, A., Gaweł, S., Chakraborti, S., Roos, W.H., Heddle, J.G.
    Academic press:
    Nano Letters (rok: 2022, tom: 22, strony: 3187–3195), Wydawca: American Chemical Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04222 - link to the publication
  4. Artificial Protein cages – Inspiration, construction, and observation.
    Authors:
    Stupka, I., Heddle, J. G.*
    Academic press:
    Current Opinion in Structural Biology (rok: 2020, tom: 64, strony: 66-73), Wydawca: Current Opinion in Structural Biology
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.sbi.2020.05.014 - link to the publication
  5. Characterization of near-miss connectivity-invariant homogeneous convex polyhedral cages
    Authors:
    Piette, B.M.A.G., Kowalczyk, A., Heddle, J.G.
    Academic press:
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 478, strony: 20210679), Wydawca: The Royal Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1098/rspa.2021.0679 - link to the publication
  6. Connectability of protein cages
    Authors:
    Majsterkiewicz, K., Azuma, Y. Heddle, J. G.*
    Academic press:
    Nanoscale Advances (rok: 2020, tom: 2 (6), strony: 2255–2264), Wydawca: The Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/D0NA00227E - link to the publication
  7. Chemically induced protein cage assembly with programmable opening and cargo release.
    Authors:
    Stupka, I., Azuma, Y., Biela, A., Imamura, M., Scheuring, S., Pyza, E., Woźnicka, O., Maskel, D. P., Heddle, J.G.
    Academic press:
    Science Advances (rok: 2022, tom: 8, strony: eabj9424), Wydawca: American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1126/sciadv.abj9424 - link to the publication
  8. Enzyme encapsulation by protein cages.
    Authors:
    Chakraborti, S., Lin, T.Y., Glatt, S. and Heddle, J.G.*
    Academic press:
    RSC Advances (rok: 2020, tom: 10(22), strony: 13293-13301), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/C9RA10983H - link to the publication
  9. Natural and artificial protein cages: design, structure and therapeutic applications
    Authors:
    Jonathan Gardiner Heddle, Soumyananda Chakraborti, Kenji Iwasaki
    Academic press:
    Current Opinion in Structural Biology (rok: 2017, tom: 43, strony: 148-155), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.sbi.2017.03.007 - link to the publication
  1. Hendecagonal Near-miss Polyhedral Cages
    Authors:
    Jonathan G. Heddle, Agnieszka Kowalczyk, Bernard M. A. G. Piette
    Conference:
    Proceedings of Bridges 2019: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Education, Culture (rok: 2019, ), Wydawca: Tessellations Publishing
    Data:
    konferencja 43662
    Status:
    Published
  1. TRAPped Structures: Making Artificial Cages with a Ring Protein
    Authors:
    Jonathan G. Heddle
    Book:
    Advances in Bioinspired and Biomedical Materials Volume 1 (rok: 2017, tom: Vol. 1252, strony: 45368), Wydawca: ACS Symposium Series, American Chemical Society
    Status:
    Published