Advance in ATP-involved active self-assembled systems

Molecular assembly offers a promising strategy to construct active systems by using biomolecules as building blocks. Such assembled systems simulate or regulate important biological activities and show great promise in wide bioapplications. In this short review, we focus on the recent progress in ATP-involved active self-assembled systems. ATP-generated active systems are constructed with hierarchical structures via molecular assembly to produce ATP by using various external influences to generate proton gradient. Further, we highlight present active supermolecular systems driven by ATP as chemical fuel. Finally, we discuss the key challenges and perspectives in the future research.