Nanotechnologische Pflanzenviren

Plant virus nanoparticles (VNPs) have advantages for applications in biomedicine and materials science due to their safety, biocompatibility and versatility. They are used to display functional amino acids or small peptides via coat protein fusions, but assembly of VNPs is strongly influenced by certain modifications. These limitations can be circumvented by plug-and-display systems. Combination with optogenetic proteins allows the design of VNP shuttles for spatially directed distribution of proteins.