Minicolloque CPR8 X Oral Poster Artificial repeat proteins evolved as habit modifiers and protein origami templates for the construction of gold-emitters hybrid nanostructures

The construction of hybrid superstructures requires strategies to control the interfacial interactions. Precise recognition and high affinity are two intrinsic properties of natural proteins that can be exploited to drive the formation of hybrid assemblies. The challenge resides in the design and use of artificial proteins for material sciences purposes. For more than a decade, we have been constructing a family of billions of fully folded artificial proteins among which we are selecting specific members that display a high affinity and chemical robustness to create gold-nanoemitters superstructures by 3 possible strategies.