Incorporation of organometallic Ru complexes into apo-ferritin cage.
Takezawa, Y., Bockmann, P., Sugi, N., Wang, Z., Abe, S., Murakami, T., Hikage, T., Erker, G., Watanabe, Y., Kitagawa, S., Ueno, T.(2011) J Chem Soc ,dalton Trans 40: 2190-2195
- PubMed: 21113534 
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c0dt00955e
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
3O7R, 3O7S - PubMed Abstract: 
Spherical protein cages such as an iron storage protein, ferritin, have great potential as nanometer-scale capsules to assemble and store metal ions and complexes. We report herein the synthesis of a composite of an apo-ferritin cage and Ru(p-cymene) complexes. Ru complexes were efficiently incorporated into the ferritin cavity without degradation of its cage structure. X-Ray crystallography revealed that the Ru complexes were immobilized on the interior surface of the cage mainly by the coordination of histidine residues.
Organizational Affiliation: 
Research Center for Materials Science, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Nagoya, Japan.