Viral protein assemblies have been recently shown to hold promise as molecular templates for applications in sensing, imaging, and catalysis of several biochemical reactions by combinations of self-assembly, chemical modifications and mutagenesis. Several strategies based on self-assembly reactions of homo- and heterolytic viral monomer proteins are highlighted and future applications in nanomaterials science and biotechnology are discussed.
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Takafumi Ueno (2008) studied this question.