Utilisation of plant viruses in bionanotechnology - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 2007 Sep 21;5(18):2891-902.

doi: 10.1039/b708175h. Epub 2007 Jul 24.

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Utilisation of plant viruses in bionanotechnology

Nicole F Steinmetz et al. Org Biomol Chem. 2007.

Abstract

Bionanoscience/technology sits at the interface of chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, engineering and medicine and involves the exploitation of biomaterials, devices or methodologies on the nanoscale. One sub-field of bionanoscience/technology is concerned with the exploitation of biomaterials in the fabrication of new nano-materials and/or -devices. In this Perspective we describe examples of how plant viruses, focusing particularly on cowpea mosaic virus, a naturally occurring pre-formed sphere-like nanoparticle, are being used as templates and/or building blocks in bionanoscience and indicate their potential for future application.

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