CPMV (cowpea mosaic virus), a plant virus, is a naturally occurring sphere-like nanoparticle, and is used as a synthon and/or template in bionanoscience. The virions formed by CPMV can be regarded as programmable nanobuilding blocks with a diameter of approximately 30 nm. A range of molecules have been attached to this viral nanoscaffold, yielding stable nanoparticles that display multiple copi...

Ferritin family proteins are found in all kingdoms of life and act to store iron within a protein cage and to protect the cell from oxidative damage caused by the Fenton reaction. The structural and biochemical features of the ferritins have been widely exploited in bionanotechnology applications: from the production of metal nanoparticles; as templates for semi-conductor production; and as sca...

iron reducing bacteria (irb) are one of the most applicable microorganisms in various industrial and environmental activities. these bacteria play a main role in the natural iron transformation. they act in a reverse metabolic pathway in contrast to iron oxidizing bacteria. in the anaerobic conditions irb are capable to use ferric ion as the final electron acceptor and reduce fe3+ to fe2+. what...

Abstract Growth of bionanotechnology requires functional materials, which can lower the costs and be modified to specific reaction. Conjugations nanoparticles enzymes form efficient products multi-material enzyme-nanocomplexes, controlled from synthesis application provide predicted results. Multimetallic nanooxides ZnO–CuO, ZnO–MnO, ZnO–MnO–CuO were obtained by precipitation method with sonica...